{"id":151,"date":"2008-01-24T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:14:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:14:04","slug":"dungy-to-return-to-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/dungy-to-return-to-pulpit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungy to Return to &#8220;Pulpit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I look at this as a job, but I also look at it as a ministry&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Tony Dungy, Colts Head Coach<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Indianapolis Colts&#8217; head football coach Tony Dungy recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/article\/20080124\/30960_Dungy_Sees_Return_to_Colts_as_Chance_to_Share_Faith.htm\">announced<\/a> he would not retire, but would return to coach next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dungy&#8217;s outspoken Christian faith, the Colts&#8217; 2007 Super Bowl victory, and his best-selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/reviews.htm#strength\">book<\/a> have made him a unique and reluctant celebrity.\u00a0 (See the &#8220;Perspective&#8221; section of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=130\">this post<\/a>.)\u00a0 Dungy had been criticized for leading the Colts to 13 regular season wins this year, only to be eliminated in the first game of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The experience gives Dungy the ability to continue his Christian witness even though his team didn&#8217;t win&#8211;a reminder to people that being a Christian does not guarantee &#8220;success&#8221; (at least not by the world&#8217;s standards).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I look at this as a job, but I also look at it as a ministry&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; Tony Dungy, Colts Head Coach The Indianapolis Colts&#8217; head football coach Tony Dungy recently announced he would not retire, but would return to coach next season.\u00a0 Dungy&#8217;s outspoken Christian faith, the Colts&#8217; 2007 Super Bowl victory, and his best-selling book have made him a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[10,68],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","category-culture","tag-religion","tag-tony-dungy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}