{"id":3863,"date":"2014-01-29T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:20:08","slug":"aaron-saari-98-is-new-part-time-pastor-of-the-first-presbyterian-church-in-yellow-springs-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/aaron-saari-98-is-new-part-time-pastor-of-the-first-presbyterian-church-in-yellow-springs-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Saari \u201998 is new part-time pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3864\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/aronSaari-Yellow-Springs-OH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3864 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/aronSaari-Yellow-Springs-OH-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"First Presbyterian Church Pastor Aaron Saari\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/aronSaari-Yellow-Springs-OH-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/aronSaari-Yellow-Springs-OH-426x300.jpg 426w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/aronSaari-Yellow-Springs-OH.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Saari &#8217;98\u00a0 (Photo by Megan Bachman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Aaron Saari \u201998<\/strong> was recently hired as the new part-time pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs, Ohio. A bible scholar and theologian, Aaron is the author of &#8220;The Many Deaths of Judas Iscariot,&#8221; a book about the historical figure and the issue of suicide. He\u2019s been a visiting professor at Xavier and adjunct instructor at Antioch University Midwest teaching courses in writing, Christianity, and non-Western religions.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron, who grew up in Yellow Springs, hopes to attract new people to the church by emphasizing the church\u2019s inclusivity and social justice commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Aaron\u2019s life and work in this <a href=\"http:\/\/ysnews.com\/news\/2014\/01\/new-first-presbyterian-church-pastor-preaches-radical-love\">Yellow Springs<em> News<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Saari \u201998 was recently hired as the new part-time pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs, Ohio. 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class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Saari &#8217;98\u00a0 (Photo by Megan Bachman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Aaron Saari \u201998<\/strong> was recently hired as the new part-time pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs, Ohio. A bible scholar and theologian, Aaron is the author of &#8220;The Many Deaths of Judas Iscariot,&#8221; a book about the historical figure and the issue of suicide. He\u2019s been a visiting professor at Xavier and adjunct instructor at Antioch University Midwest teaching courses in writing, Christianity, and non-Western religions.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron, who grew up in Yellow Springs, hopes to attract new people to the church by emphasizing the church\u2019s inclusivity and social justice commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Aaron\u2019s life and work in this <a href=\"http:\/\/ysnews.com\/news\/2014\/01\/new-first-presbyterian-church-pastor-preaches-radical-love\">Yellow Springs<em> News<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9986,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/9986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}