{"id":30474,"date":"2012-01-24T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_salina_journal_profile_article_of_military_scool_chaplain_matthew_lewis\/"},"modified":"2012-01-24T22:01:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T22:01:34","slug":"a_salina_journal_profile_article_of_military_scool_chaplain_matthew_lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30474","title":{"rendered":"A Salina Journal profile Article of Military School Chaplain Matthew Lewis&#8211;Disbelief to devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a tragedy in Lewis&#8217; life &#8212; the death of his mother from cancer while he was still a teenager &#8212; spurred a period of introspection, what Lewis called &#8220;the dark nights of my soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After reading many books on religion &#8212; &#8220;Mere Christianity&#8221; by C.S. Lewis being a particular influence &#8212; talking with friends and studying Bible Scripture to find the true meaning behind the words, Lewis had what he called &#8220;an intense conversion experience in college.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though I thought Scripture was dumb, it started compelling me more and more as I read,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Faith didn&#8217;t emerge until I began to take my life seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saljournal.com\/news\/story\/Matthew-Lewis-1-22\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a tragedy in Lewis&#8217; life &#8212; the death of his mother from cancer while he was still a teenager &#8212; spurred a period of introspection, what Lewis called &#8220;the dark nights of my soul.&#8221; After reading many books on religion<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30474\">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":[36,39,111,66,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30474","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=30474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}