{"id":107146,"date":"2021-11-23T17:09:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107146"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:41:12","slug":"c-of-e-i-was-fighting-it-an-ai-scientists-12-year-journey-to-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107146","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) \u2018I was fighting it\u2019 an AI scientist\u2019s 12-year journey to ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Akingbemisilu was ordained as a Deacon earlier this year. He serves as a Self-Supporting Minister in Thamesmead, London, in the Diocese of Southwark \u2013 alongside working in Data Science.<br \/>\nHenry is shown in his clerical robes smiling<br \/>\nHenry was born in Nigeria, coming to the UK to study mathematics and computer network engineering. His journey to ordination started in 2008, but it was only in 2015 that he finally started the official discernment process with Southwark Diocese. <\/p>\n<p>In the years that preceded this, he was involved in his church \u2013 in the choir, in prayer ministry groups and as Church Warden for eight years but felt a \u2018calling\u2019 to do more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, when God is calling, you just won\u2019t be at peace with yourself until you give in,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took me so many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked myself is this God or is it me making things up?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-and-news\/stories-blogs-and-features\/i-was-fighting-it-ai-scientists-12-year-journey\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018I was fighting it\u2019 an AI scientist\u2019s 12-year journey to ordination.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZS1soxh8yR\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZS1soxh8yR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Southwark Diocese (@SouthwarkCofE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthwarkCofE\/status\/1462729355789013000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Akingbemisilu was ordained as a Deacon earlier this year. He serves as a Self-Supporting Minister in Thamesmead, London, in the Diocese of Southwark \u2013 alongside working in Data Science. Henry is shown in his clerical robes smiling Henry was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107146\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,199,435,184,108,95,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-seminary-theological-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107150,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107146\/revisions\/107150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}