{"id":573,"date":"2008-09-15T18:32:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T02:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/poptheology\/?p=573"},"modified":"2008-09-15T18:32:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T02:32:45","slug":"new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/poptheology\/2008\/09\/new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"New Leader&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/357\/2008\/09\/braxton07.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-572\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/357\/2008\/09\/braxton07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"207\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/gradschool\/religion\/faculty\/facultypages\/braxton.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Brad Braxton<\/a>, former homiletics and New Testament professor at <a href=\"http:\/\/divinity.wfu.edu\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Wake Forest University Divinity School<\/a>, on his election as the sixth senior pastor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theriversidechurchny.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Riverside Church<\/a> in New York City.\u00a0 Follow the link after the jump for more.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/15\/nyregion\/15riverside.html?_r=2&amp;ref=nyregion&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Divided Landmark Church Picks \u2018Progressive Evangelical\u2019 as New Leader<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Brad Braxton, former homiletics and New Testament professor at Wake Forest University Divinity School, on his election as the sixth senior pastor at Riverside Church in New York City.\u00a0 Follow the link after the jump for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Leader...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Congratulations to Dr. Brad Braxton, former homiletics and New Testament professor at Wake Forest University Divinity School, on his election as the sixth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/poptheology\/2008\/09\/new-leader\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Leader...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Congratulations to Dr. Brad Braxton, former homiletics and New Testament professor at Wake Forest University Divinity School, on his election as the sixth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/poptheology\/2008\/09\/new-leader\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pop Theology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-09-16T02:32:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/poptheology\/files\/2008\/09\/braxton07.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"J. 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