{"id":2815,"date":"2019-11-20T10:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2019-11-20T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:56:55","slug":"doug-gwyn-tells-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"Doug Gwyn Tells His Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Pastor Doug Gwyn t<a href=\"https:\/\/afriendlyletter.com\/passing-the-torch-author-doug-gwyn-doug-gwyn-i-received-a-distinct-calling\/\">ells the story of his faith journey and work as a Friends pastor and writer<\/a> in a new book edited by Chuck Fager called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1705619495?&amp;tag=admarketus-20&amp;ref=pd_sl_aC3C64F07AD54CDA4160CD5D6A\">Passing the Torch: When Quaker Lives Speak<\/a><\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-20-at-10.45.16-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2816\" width=\"154\" height=\"192\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Gwyn felt the call to ministry when he was in college: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The subtle but clear call, \u201cbe a minister,\u201d came as I sat alone in my dormitory room one evening.\u00a0 It came as a seismic non sequitur that felt strangely hopeful.  I understood my calling to be a Christian ministry among Friends.\u00a0 But I was sure it needed to be something more prophetically Christian and more seriously Quaker than what I had received in my youth. <\/em><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole chapter is well worth reading.  The link above is to an excerpt from Fager&#8217;s blog.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pastor Doug Gwyn tells the story of his faith journey and work as a Friends pastor and writer in a new book edited by Chuck Fager called Passing the Torch: When Quaker Lives Speak. Gwyn felt the call to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=2815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[95,152],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-doug-gwyn","tag-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-Jp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}