{"id":54159,"date":"2017-10-20T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/?p=54159"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:35:14","slug":"introducing-program-director-jeremy-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/2017\/10\/20\/introducing-program-director-jeremy-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Program Director, Jeremy Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54160\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Jeremey-Myers-Headshot-Photo-300x241-300x241.jpeg\" alt=\"headshot of Jeremy Myers\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Jeremy Myers, Program Director<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Jeremy<\/span>\u00a0has been a member of the Religion department at Augsburg University since 2006 with specific responsibilities for facilitating the University\u2019s\u00a0Theology and Public Leadership\u00a0degree program, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/youth-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/youth-studies\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1538674695388000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYC2QvMXk-BXAiDG1hMvwdxl38mw\">Youth Studies<\/a>\u00a0minor, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ayti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ayti\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1538674695388000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFs234pk8U5aAjRMLf9ihXT4lUcyg\">Augsburg Youth Theology Institute<\/a>. He is a rostered Deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). You can learn more about his <a href=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/jpmyers\/\">views on ministry with youth and young adults at his\u00a0blog<\/a>, or by reading his book\u00a0Liberating Youth from Adolescence.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Jeremy<\/span>\u00a0has served in the field of ministry with youth and young adults professionally since 1997. He loves working with those in this chapter of life and equally loves helping faith communities become more engaged in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>He believes young people today are not longing for anything different than previous generations. But the culture in which they experience these longings has grown increasingly complex and the gap between our young adults and congregations is greater than it has ever been. This gap has appeared as congregations have failed to move into this complex culture with their young people.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Jeremy<\/span>\u00a0is certain congregations can learn and implement practices that move them into this complex public square where their young adults are seeking to navigate life and faith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy\u00a0has been a member of the Religion department at Augsburg University since 2006 with specific responsibilities for facilitating the University\u2019s\u00a0Theology &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":54418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,181],"tags":[13,195,208,126],"class_list":["post-54159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christensen-center-for-vocation","category-staff","tag-ccv-staff","tag-jeremy-myers-phd","tag-young-adults","tag-youth-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55344,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159\/revisions\/55344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}