{"id":24233,"date":"2011-01-27T22:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-minister_offers_comfort_calm_in_disasters_shadowy_places\/"},"modified":"2011-01-27T22:39:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:39:53","slug":"rns-minister_offers_comfort_calm_in_disasters_shadowy_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24233","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Minister Offers Comfort, Calm in Disasters\u2019 Shadowy Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after a gunman opened fire and killed six people at a Kirkwood City Council meeting, the Rev. David Holyan recently found himself in Tucson, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p>Holyan, 46, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, has become an accidental expert in what the Presbyterian Church (USA) calls \u201chuman-caused disaster\u201d\u009d response. More precisely, he is a member of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance\u2019s National Response Team.<\/p>\n<p>His expertise comes from the victim side. Holyan\u2019s church became a spiritual hub for the community in the wake of the shooting rampage on Feb. 7, 2008, that claimed the lives of six people\u201d\u201dincluding two of Holyan\u2019s parishioners\u201d\u201dand the gunman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/minister-offers-comfort-calm-in-disasters-shadowy-places-cms-17355\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after a gunman opened fire and killed six people at a Kirkwood City Council meeting, the Rev. David Holyan recently found himself in Tucson, Ariz. Holyan, 46, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, has become an accidental<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24233\">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":[48,39,89,435,184,436,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-media","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24233","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=24233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}