{"id":655,"date":"2012-11-30T12:29:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=655"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:26:32","slug":"albritton-walter-matthew-jr-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"ALBRITTON, WALTER MATTHEW, JR., 1932-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Methodist clergyman. Born&#8211; March 24, 1932, Wetumpka. Parents&#8211; Walter Matthew and Caroline (Johnson) Albritton. Married&#8211; Louise Eudene Brown, June 1, 1952. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Auburn University, B.S., 1954; Emory University, B.D., 1953. Ordained a deacon in the United Methodist Church, 1956 and an elder, 1958. Pastored churches in Alabama and Florida, 1953-1954; 1958-1963. Edited Pastor Magazine, 1955-1956; directed the Evangelism Program Council in Andalusia, 1963-1969; 1968-72, served on the staff of the General Board of Evangelism of the United Methodist Church, Nashville; member of the staff of the United Methodist Church in Mobile, 1972-1975; First United Methodist Church in Demopolis, 1975-89; Trinity United Methodist Church, Opelika, 1989-2002; Associate Pastor for Traditional Worship at Saint James United Methodist, Montgomery, after 2004.\u00a0 Writes a weekly column &#8220;Alter Call&#8221; for the Opelika-Auburn News and a continuing commentary on the International Bible Lessons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Religion, 1975; Walter and Dean Albritton website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do the Best You Can<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Let Go of the Rope.<\/p>\n<p>An Exciting Saturday Night Ride in an Ambulance<\/p>\n<p>If You Want to Walk on Water, You&#8217;ve Got to Get Out of Your Boat. Waco, Tex.; Word Books, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Just Get over it and Move On<\/p>\n<p>Koinonia Ministries Guidebook. Nashville; Tidings, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Life Is Short<\/p>\n<p>Lord, Please Deliver Me, I beg you, from Another Live Manger Scene<\/p>\n<p>Second Steps for a New Man; Letters to a Growing Christian. Nashville; Tidings, 1969?<\/p>\n<p>You Simply Can&#8217;t Trust a Talking Bird.\u00a0 Lima, Ohio:\u00a0 Fairway Press, 1992.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Prisoner&#8217;s Message of Freedom and Joy; a Study-Commentary on Philippians. Atlanta; Lay Renewal Pub., 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Methodist clergyman. Born&#8211; March 24, 1932, Wetumpka. Parents&#8211; Walter Matthew and Caroline (Johnson) Albritton. Married&#8211; Louise Eudene Brown, June 1, 1952. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Auburn University, B.S., 1954; Emory University, B.D., 1953. Ordained a deacon in the United Methodist Church, 1956 and an elder, 1958. Pastored churches in Alabama and Florida, 1953-1954; 1958-1963. Edited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","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\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5321,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}