{"id":181,"date":"2009-08-22T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2009\/08\/22\/lutherans-homosexuals-minnesota-and-a-calvinist-prophet\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:04:53","slug":"lutherans-homosexuals-minnesota-and-a-calvinist-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2009\/08\/22\/lutherans-homosexuals-minnesota-and-a-calvinist-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutherans, Homosexuals, Minnesota and a Calvinist Prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pollsb.com\/photos\/60\/255892-i_say_church_steeple_lightening_rod_top_shows_lack_confidence_doug_mcleod.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pollsb.com\/photos\/60\/255892-i_say_church_steeple_lightening_rod_top_shows_lack_confidence_doug_mcleod.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>John Piper has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/Blog\/1965_the_tornado_the_lutherans_and_homosexuality\/\">stated in his BLOG<\/a> that the tornados that struck the Twin Cities were God&#8217;s judgment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/faith\/53859967.html?page=1&amp;c=y\">Lutheran body meeting to decide the place of homosexuals in the ordained ministry in the ELCA church<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-19719-Atlanta-Southern-Baptist-Examiner~y2009m8d21-John-Piper-a-tornado-and-discerning-the-motives-of-God\">secular press has picked up the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Piper has stated in his BLOG that the tornados that struck the Twin Cities were God&#8217;s judgment on the Lutheran body meeting to decide the place of homosexuals in the ordained ministry in the ELCA church. The secular press has picked up the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-calvinism","category-history","category-reformed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}