{"id":39461,"date":"2017-01-05T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39461"},"modified":"2017-01-05T02:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T05:07:48","slug":"cage-fighting-missionary-and-usafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/cage-fighting-missionary-and-usafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cage-Fighting Missionary and USAFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity Today recently had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2017\/january-february\/i-went-from-fighting-in-cage-to-living-in-hut.html\">piece on Justin Wren<\/a>, one-time aspiring Olympic wrestler turned drug addict and eventual missionary to the Mbuti in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The story is interesting if you like the wrestling\/MMA scene or bad-boy-turned-missionary stories. More relevant, though, was the picture Wren used at the top of his article:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39462\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/justinwrenusafa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/justinwrenusafa.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/justinwrenusafa-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/justinwrenusafa-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>For the uninitiated, that&#8217;s the interior of the US Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel in Colorado Springs, <!--more-->Colorado. (There&#8217;s an Olympic training center in CSprings, as well, which may explain the connection.)<\/p>\n<p>The outside of the chapel is one of the most photographed buildings in Colorado, and it seems even the interior is both iconic and picturesque, which may be why <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/03\/22\/disney-copies-usafa-cadet-chapel\/\">Disney used it<\/a> in a major animated feature, as well.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Photo credited to Willie Petersen.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity Today recently had a piece on Justin Wren, one-time aspiring Olympic wrestler turned drug addict and eventual missionary to the Mbuti in Africa. The story is interesting if you like the wrestling\/MMA scene or bad-boy-turned-missionary stories. More relevant, though, was the picture Wren used at the top of his article: For the uninitiated, that&#8217;s the interior of the US [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2038,134,38,1127,6028,6029,22,257,65],"class_list":["post-39461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-africa","tag-air-force","tag-chapel","tag-disney","tag-justin-wren","tag-mbuti","tag-missionary","tag-olympics","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39461","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=39461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}