{"id":21919,"date":"2013-12-05T20:14:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=21919"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:14:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:14:50","slug":"gerald-jerry-anderson-sth-55-grs-60-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/gerald-jerry-anderson-sth-55-grs-60-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald (Jerry) Anderson (STH &#039;55, GRS &#039;60)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald (Jerry) Anderson (STH\u201955, GRS\u201960) met Pope Francis, gave a lecture and received<br \/>\nan honorary Doctor of Missiology degree from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome on<br \/>\nNovember 14.<br \/>\nThe degree was presented to him by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the Chancellor<br \/>\nof the university. It was the first time an honorary degree has been given to a Protestant by<br \/>\nthis university that was founded in 1627 and is owned by the Sacred Congregation for the<br \/>\nEvangelization of Peoples. Dr. Anderson, a former UM missionary in the Philippines and<br \/>\npresident of Scarritt College in Nashville, is emeritus director of the Overseas Ministries Study<br \/>\nCenter in New Haven, CT, and resides in Hamden, CT.<br \/>\nThanks for sharing this wonderful news with us, Jerry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald (Jerry) Anderson (STH\u201955, GRS\u201960) met Pope Francis, gave a lecture and received an honorary Doctor of Missiology degree from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome on November 14. The degree was presented to him by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the Chancellor of the university. It was the first time an honorary degree has been given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}