{"id":797,"date":"2021-03-23T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/?p=797"},"modified":"2021-03-23T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:16:21","slug":"isaac-simmons-20-becomes-ministry-candidate-at-heart-of-united-methodist-church-split-over-lgbtq-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/2021\/03\/23\/isaac-simmons-20-becomes-ministry-candidate-at-heart-of-united-methodist-church-split-over-lgbtq-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Simmons &#8217;20 Becomes Ministry Candidate at Heart of United Methodist Church Split Over LGBTQ+ Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-798 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/files\/2021\/03\/isaac-simmons-e1616526354867.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Isaac Simmons &#8217;20, an openly gay drag queen recently certified as a candidate for Methodist ministry, hopes to \u201cbridge the huge gap that is between queerness and spirituality.\u201d The United Methodist Church in America is in the middle of splitting over LGBTQ+ issues and Simmons is at the heart of this split.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wglt.org\/post\/gay-drag-queen-becomes-ministry-candidate-heart-united-methodist-church-split?fbclid=IwAR0zbY8GPZUNFqsJr-eNdyGbLmXVWrhOmX1KCFIkfc203zQqljaKj3CnxSk#stream\/0\">Gay Drag Queen Becomes Ministry Candidate At Heart Of United Methodist Church Split<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from WGLT Radio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Simmons &#8217;20, an openly gay drag queen recently certified as a candidate for Methodist ministry, hopes to \u201cbridge the huge gap that is between queerness and spirituality.\u201d The United Methodist Church in America is in the middle of splitting over LGBTQ+ issues and Simmons is at the heart of this split. Read more on\u00a0Gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}