{"id":4250,"date":"2015-04-24T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2015-04-24T08:18:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:18:37","slug":"bush-john-charles-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4250","title":{"rendered":"BUSH, JOHN CHARLES, 1938-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presbyterian minister; writer. Born&#8211;March 8, 1938, Century, Escambia County, Florida. Parents&#8211;William E. and Anna Lee (Vaughan) Bush. Married&#8211;Sara Lucile Fulton, December 18, 1959, Birmingham. Children&#8211;two. Education: Sidney Lanier High School, Montgomery, graduated 1956; Howard College, 1960; Midwestern Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO, 1963; San Francisco Theological Seminary, D. Min., 1976. Ordained to the ministry, Clayton St. Baptist Church, Montgomery, 1954; received into the United Presbyterian Church (USA), 1963. Executive Director, Kentucky Council of Churches, Lexington, Ky., 1974-1990. Served Presbyterian churches in Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Michigan, and Alabama. Founding Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church, Madison, AL., 1991-2001. President, Interfaith Mission Service, Huntsville, 1999-2000; Interim Pastor, Northbrook Presbyterian Church, Beverly Hills, MI, 2001-2003; First Presbyterian Church, Royal Oak, MI, 2003-04; First Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, 2005-06; Fellowship Presbyterian Church, Huntsville, 2007-08. Member, Board of Trustees, Miles College, Birmingham, 2013-. Published numerous magazine articles and sermons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn C. Bush, Decatur, AL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><br \/>\nDisaster Response: A Handbook for Church Action. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1979.<br \/>\nLiving Together: A Consultation on Roman Catholic Participation in State Ecumenical Agencies. New York: Commission on Regional and Locial Ecumenism, 1988.<br \/>\nA New Reformed Catechism: A Shorter Catechism for Today. Topeka, KS: Viaticum Press, 1997.<br \/>\nPatriots and Rebels. CreateSpace, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications:<\/strong><br \/>\nInterchurch Families: Resources for Ecumenical Hope. Louisville: WestminsterJohnKnox Press, 2002.<br \/>\nPrivileged Clergy Communication and the Law. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1983; revised edition, 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presbyterian minister; writer. Born&#8211;March 8, 1938, Century, Escambia County, Florida. Parents&#8211;William E. and Anna Lee (Vaughan) Bush. Married&#8211;Sara Lucile Fulton, December 18, 1959, Birmingham. Children&#8211;two. Education: Sidney Lanier High School, Montgomery, graduated 1956; Howard College, 1960; Midwestern Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO, 1963; San Francisco Theological Seminary, D. Min., 1976. Ordained to the ministry, Clayton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}