{"id":2296,"date":"2014-06-12T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2014-06-12T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:12:13","slug":"wright-hugh-elliot-jr-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"WRIGHT, HUGH ELLIOT, JR., 1937-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor; manager; Methodist clergyman. Born&#8211; November 20, 1937, in Athens, Ala. Parents&#8211; Hugh Elliot and Martha Angeline (Shannon) Wright. Married&#8211; Juanita Ruth Bass, December 30, 1963. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1959; Vanderbilt, M.Div. 1962; Harvard, D. Ministry, 1967. Methodist minister, Baxter, Tenn., 1963-1964; Nashville, Tenn., 1965-1966; field secretary, Tennessee Heart Association, 1964-1965; assistant editor, Motive Magazine, 1965-1967; editor, Religious News Service, 1967-1975; research fellow, Auburn Theological Seminary, New York City, 1976; editor, American Enterprise Institute, 1979-1980; coordinator, Project on Church, State, and Taxation, National Council of Christian Churches, 1980-. Consultant, Hartford Seminary Foundation; United Methodist Board of Global Ministries; United Methodist Communications. Member&#8211; Authors League and Guild, Religious Newswriters Association, United Presbyterian Men, Phi Beta Kappa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go Free. New York; Friendship Press, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Holy Company; Christian Heroes and Heroines. New York; Macmillan, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Big Little School; Sunday Child of American Protestantism. New York; Harper &amp; Row, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Can These Bones Live. New York; Sheed and Ward, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>A Tale of Two Congregations; Commitment and Social Structure in a Charismatic and Mainline Congregation. Hartford, Conn.; Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Edge of Hope; Christian Laity in Paradox. New York; Seabury Press, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Black Manifesto; Religion, Racism, and Reparation. New York; Sheed and Ward, 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Editor; manager; Methodist clergyman. Born&#8211; November 20, 1937, in Athens, Ala. Parents&#8211; Hugh Elliot and Martha Angeline (Shannon) Wright. Married&#8211; Juanita Ruth Bass, December 30, 1963. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1959; Vanderbilt, M.Div. 1962; Harvard, D. Ministry, 1967. Methodist minister, Baxter, Tenn., 1963-1964; Nashville, Tenn., 1965-1966; field secretary, Tennessee Heart Association, 1964-1965; assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}