{"id":52902,"date":"2023-08-02T09:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=52902"},"modified":"2023-08-02T09:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T13:34:36","slug":"prof-steven-sandage-quoted-in-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/prof-steven-sandage-quoted-in-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Steven Sandage quoted in The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an excerpt from <\/em>The Washington Post<\/a>\u2019<\/em>s <\/em>article \u201c<\/em>As churches shrink and pastors retire, creative workarounds are redefining ministry<\/em><\/a>\u201d by Elizabeth E. Evans, featuring a quote by Professor Steven Sandage<\/a>, published on July 31, 2023. <\/em>Read the full article<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Steven Sandage, a university scholar and research director at the\u00a0<\/span>Danielsen Institute at Boston University,<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>has done extensive studies on clergy mental health. He\u2019s concerned about how to support pastoral leaders once they graduate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey face even more distress and trauma than they did in seminary,\u201d he said. \u201cI see some seminaries and some religious bodies that seem to be in denial about those realities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is an excerpt from The Washington Post\u2019s article \u201cAs churches shrink and pastors retire, creative workarounds are redefining ministry\u201d by Elizabeth E. Evans, featuring a quote by Professor Steven Sandage, published on July 31, 2023. Read the full article. … Steven Sandage, a university scholar and research director at the\u00a0Danielsen Institute at Boston […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,201,203],"tags":[194,401,288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52902"}],"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=52902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52904,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52902\/revisions\/52904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}