{"id":50494,"date":"2015-06-26T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_norvel_goff-pastor_walks_line_between_leading_comforting_emanuel_ame\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T02:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T02:00:38","slug":"ap_norvel_goff-pastor_walks_line_between_leading_comforting_emanuel_ame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50494","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Norvel Goff&#8211;Pastor walks line between leading, comforting Emanuel AME in Charleston SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Norvel Goff will walk into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for Bible study keenly aware of the crushing burden now on his shoulders: to be a comforter, a teacher, a man of God and most powerfully, a leader of a church whose heart is heavy with the tragic loss of its senior pastor and eight members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even in the midst of tragedy, we still must press forward, and move forward with the understanding that we can still make this world, this community, and our nation a better place to live by living out our faith, not sitting down on it,&#8221; Goff said in an interview with The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old Goff was named interim leader of the historic church called &#8220;Mother Emanuel&#8221; at one of the lowest points in its nearly 200-year history. But the Georgetown, South Carolina, native said the church won&#8217;t dwell on the past, although the slain included the church&#8217;s senior minister, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/66e8f575f29b4499940129ccf6b8fe66\/pastor-walks-line-between-leading-comforting-emanuel-ame#\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Norvel Goff will walk into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for Bible study keenly aware of the crushing burden now on his shoulders: to be a comforter, a teacher, a man of God and most powerfully, a leader<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50494\">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":[48,39,54,175,438,168,435,184,177,120,108,34,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50494","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=50494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}