{"id":3523,"date":"2011-02-16T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:00:24","slug":"called-by-god-wrestling-with-who-i-am-leonard-dow-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2011\/02\/16\/called-by-god-wrestling-with-who-i-am-leonard-dow-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Called by God: Wrestling with Who I Am \u2013 Leonard Dow \u201987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you wrestling with who you are?\u00a0 In this opening chapel of Spiritual Life Week, Pastor Leonard Dow speaks on this theme inspired from the biblical story of Jacob.<\/p>\n<p>Each semester, campus ministries hosts Spiritual Life Week, an engaging series of events aimed at deepening faith in Jesus Christ. The February 2011 events are themed \u201cCalled by God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Dow, an \u201987 alum of EMU, serves as pastor of Oxford Circle Mennonite Church, an urban, multi-ethnic community in Philadelphia, PA. He serves as bishop of the Lancaster Conference Philadelphia District, vice chair of the Mennonite Central Committee U. S. Board, board chair of the Oxford Circle Christian Community Development Association and board member of Singing City, a non-profit music industry. Prior to being called into ministry, he was in banking for 10-12 years. Dow seeks to combine his business expertise along with his ethical and Christian values to ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you wrestling with who you are?\u00a0 In this opening chapel of Spiritual Life Week, Pastor Leonard Dow speaks on this theme inspired from the biblical story of Jacob. Each semester, campus ministries hosts Spiritual Life Week, an engaging series of events aimed at deepening faith in Jesus Christ. The February 2011 events are themed....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,409],"tags":[4108],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life-week","category-chapel","tag-leonard-dow","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}