{"id":10307,"date":"2020-10-01T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10307"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:30:35","slug":"augsburg-president-writes-about-the-three-pandemics-in-the-st-paul-pioneer-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/01\/augsburg-president-writes-about-the-three-pandemics-in-the-st-paul-pioneer-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg president writes about the three pandemics in the St. Paul Pioneer Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/04\/Paul-Pribbenow-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9045 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/04\/Paul-Pribbenow-2017-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Pribbenow\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/04\/Paul-Pribbenow-2017-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/04\/Paul-Pribbenow-2017-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/04\/Paul-Pribbenow-2017.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The St. Paul Pioneer Press published an opinion piece by President Paul Pribbenow, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2020\/10\/01\/paul-pribbenow-through-truth-to-freedom-by-way-of-reconciliation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThrough truth to freedom \u2013 by way of reconciliation.\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In the article, he reflects on how Augsburg University\u2019s motto, \u201cthrough truth to freedom,\u201d offers a compelling response to the coronavirus, the economic downturn, and racism. He asserts that Augsburg and other institutions of higher education can play a unique role in exploring the truths of these pandemics. As we seek the truth, he writes, \u201cwe will find\u2014always evolving and emerging and transforming\u2014the sins and lies that we tell each other about knowledge and privilege and justice. Only when we face the truths we find, confess our complicity in the sin and lies we tell, and humbly seek to be reconciled with each other and the creation, will we be freed for the work we are called to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Paul Pioneer Press published an opinion piece by President Paul Pribbenow, \u201cThrough truth to freedom \u2013 by way of reconciliation.\u201d In the article, he reflects on how Augsburg University\u2019s motto, \u201cthrough truth to freedom,\u201d offers a compelling response to the coronavirus, the economic downturn, and racism. He asserts that Augsburg and other institutions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}