{"id":1590,"date":"2018-02-16T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2018-02-16T07:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:02:33","slug":"february-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"February 16 &#8211; Clergy Ethics depend on more than just education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"February 16 &#8211; Clergy Ethics depend on more than just education\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1590\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/021618_1200_February161.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">Since 1992 I have required as a clergy member to attend a mandatory one-day training on &#8220;Ethics for Clergy&#8221;. Part of the emphasis on these training days is how not to ethics violations of a sexual nature. This means after the event I attend later this month I will have attended 7 of these sessions.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">Each time I receive a notice to attend I wonder how much value I will derive from these trainings. Standards for ethical behavior have not changed that much in the time I have been clergy. I have a theory that practicing ethical behavior is a choice. I also believe that knowing what is ethical and doing what is ethical are 2 different things. I don&#8217;t think we should be lulled into a false sense of complacency that by simply teaching we can be sure that ethical behavior will always be practiced.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1992 I have required as a clergy member to attend a mandatory one-day training on &#8220;Ethics for Clergy&#8221;. Part of the emphasis on these training days is how not to ethics violations of a sexual nature. This means after the event I attend later this month I will have attended 7 of these sessions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February 16 &#8211; Clergy Ethics depend on more than just education<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}