{"id":1054,"date":"2019-11-09T21:33:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T02:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2019-12-12T00:10:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:10:44","slug":"willard-swartley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/willard-swartley\/","title":{"rendered":"Willard Swartley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the books that I brought from North America is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Health, Healing and the Church's Mission (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aw\/d\/B0090NA2HY\/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b0090na2hy\" target=\"_blank\">Health, Healing and the Church&#8217;s Mission<\/a>. Reading this book was the extent of my interaction with Willard Swartley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is a wonderful &#8211; if dense &#8211; discussion of the Christian Church&#8217;s formal role in healthcare. A role that the contemporary Church has largely stepped away from &#8211; the book explores the ramifications of this separation for healthcare systems and for the Church. It is a blending of theology, healthcare administration, sociology, and history in theme. It took some focus to digest but I found it to be a powerful book with a clear sense of calling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191110_090708-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191110_090708-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191110_090708-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191110_090708-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191110_090708-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was sad to hear of Willard Swartley&#8217;s passing this week. He was a Professor Emeritus at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and likely would have know Crystal&#8217;s maternal Grandparents (Erland and Winifred Waltner) well. An in-depth<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" remembrance of his life can be found at Patheos (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/anabaptistrevisions\/2019\/11\/willard-m-swartley-1936-2019-a-remembrance\/\" target=\"_blank\"> remembrance of his life can be found at Patheos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the books that I brought from North America is Health, Healing and the Church&#8217;s Mission. Reading this book was the extent of my interaction with Willard Swartley. The book is a wonderful &#8211; if dense &#8211; discussion of the Christian Church&#8217;s formal role in healthcare. A role that the contemporary Church has largely&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/willard-swartley\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[79,118,140],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-home","tag-healthcare","tag-mennonite","tag-remembrance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191110_090545.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-h0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}