{"id":2511,"date":"2013-02-28T12:18:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2015-03-02T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:45:09","slug":"biblical-reflections-on-the-call-and-challenge-of-modern-day-missions-fr-richard-baawobr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2013\/02\/28\/biblical-reflections-on-the-call-and-challenge-of-modern-day-missions-fr-richard-baawobr\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBiblical reflections on the call and challenge of modern day missions\u201d \u2013 Fr. Richard Baawobr"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/02.28.13--RichardBaawobrSemChap.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p>Fr. Richard Baawobr reflects on modern day missions as he addresses Chapel Gathering in the Seminary. Born in Ghana in 1959, Richard Baawobr is a priest member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa. He studied Philosophy in Ghana, Spirituality in Switzerland, Theology at the Missionary Institute of London.<\/p>\n<p>After his priestly ordination, he worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo then studied Bible at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome) before teaching in Tanzania and in the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic Institute of Toulouse (France). He obtained a Doctorate in Biblical Theology from the latter with a Thesis entitled \u201cQuand J\u00e9sus prend la parole. Identit\u00e9 du Ma\u00eetre et naissance du disciple en Luc 4,16-30\u201d (2004). He has published commentaries on the Sunday Gospels and on the Second Reading of Sundays for Christian Communities. He has also published articles in other scientific journals.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2004 he has been serving on the general Council of the Missionaries of Africa, first as Vicar General and since 2010 as Superior General.<\/p>\n<div>The entire campus community is invited to every chapel worship service on\u00a0campus. Eastern Mennonite Seminary hosts chapel gatherings in Martin\u00a0Chapel every Tuesday and Thursday;\u00a091¶ÌÊÓƵ\u00a0Campus Ministries hosts chapel\u00a0gatherings every Wednesday and Friday in Lehman Auditorium. Specifics and\u00a0occasional changes are noted in individual chapel listings.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/02.28.13--RichardBaawobrSemChap.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>Fr. Richard Baawobr reflects on modern day missions as he addresses Chapel Gathering in the Seminary. Born in Ghana in 1959, Richard Baawobr is a priest member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa. He studied Philosophy in Ghana, Spirituality in Switzerland, Theology at the Missionary Institute of London. After his priestly ordination, he worked....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[4528,4161],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seminary-chapels","tag-missions","tag-richard-baawobr","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}