{"id":34080,"date":"2018-02-12T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=34080"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T18:24:38","slug":"rev-dr-william-e-alberts-61-explores-the-boston-declaration-in-new-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/rev-dr-william-e-alberts-61-explores-the-boston-declaration-in-new-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Dr. William E. Alberts (&#8217;61) Explores the Boston Declaration in New Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Rev. William E. Alberts (STH 1961) appears in the Feb. 6, 2018 issue of Counterpunch (a prominent political website), in which his articles have been published regularly since 2004.\u00a0 The article, The Test of Being Prophetic, provides a critique of The Boston Declaration, issued last November by over 100 theologians and other faith leaders at Boston\u2019s Old South Church.\u00a0 The Boston Declaration challenges \u201cthe corruption of US Christianity,\u201d especially by white evangelical Christians, whose white supremacist orientation leads them to support politicians who promote \u201cexclusion, exploitation and hatred\u201d in the interest of maintaining white privilege and the normalizing of oppression.\u00a0 The focus of Dr. Alberts\u2019 critique is that The Boston Declaration is to be lauded as far as it goes, and is instructive because of where it stops.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/06\/the-test-of-being-prophetic-a-critique-of-the-boston-declaration\/\">You can read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Rev. William E. Alberts (STH 1961) appears in the Feb. 6, 2018 issue of Counterpunch (a prominent political website), in which his articles have been published regularly since 2004.\u00a0 The article, The Test of Being Prophetic, provides a critique of The Boston Declaration, issued last November by over 100 theologians and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080"}],"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=34080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}