{"id":45886,"date":"2014-09-16T01:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tlc_canon_andrew_white_the_vicar_of_baghdad-doing_what_he_was_made_to_do\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T01:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T01:20:02","slug":"tlc_canon_andrew_white_the_vicar_of_baghdad-doing_what_he_was_made_to_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45886","title":{"rendered":"(TLC) Canon Andrew White, the Vicar of Baghdad&#8211;Doing What He Was Made to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Rev. Canon Andrew White, in his work as chaplain of St. George\u2019s Anglican Church of Baghdad, the flesh may be weak but the spirit remains strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to be honest with you. I\u2019ve never felt overwhelmed. I know I\u2019m doing what I was made to do and what I was created to do,\u201d\u009d White said during a forum at All Saints Church in Chevy Chase, Maryland, on September 14. \u201cThe Lord is here, and he has never left us, even in our time of great trial.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Even in the face of violence, persecution and killings perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), \u201cI\u2019ve never felt discouraged,\u201d\u009d he told TLC, because of his deep trust in God. \u201cI never doubt him,\u201d\u009d White said. \u201cI always love him and I know he loves me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livingchurch.org\/doing-what-he-was-made-do\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Rev. Canon Andrew White, in his work as chaplain of St. George\u2019s Anglican Church of Baghdad, the flesh may be weak but the spirit remains strong. \u201cI have to be honest with you. I\u2019ve never felt overwhelmed. I<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45886\">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":[36,48,50,557,203,435,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45886","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=45886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}