{"id":5477,"date":"2021-04-07T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2021-04-07T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T01:35:17","slug":"campus-pastor-david-nasser-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5477","title":{"rendered":"Campus Pastor David Nasser stepping down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University&rsquo;s campus pastor has announced his resignation through a social media post to students Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>David Nasser, Liberty University Senior Vice President for Spiritual Development, posted a seven-minute-long video to YouTube with his wife, Jennifer, detailing why he will be resigning from his position.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After seven years of being a part of this staff as campus pastor, the Lord is transitioning me out of this role and this will be my last semester here,&rdquo; Nasser said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liberty&#39;s campus pastor announces he is leaving after 7 years. I visited campus in 2019 to profile Nasser, who students described to me as &quot;PR guy for student relations&quot; and a &quot;buffer&quot; who helped quiet student dissatisfaction with Jerry Falwell Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzFQLokCdq\">https:\/\/t.co\/PzFQLokCdq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FrDGgZxSBU\">https:\/\/t.co\/FrDGgZxSBU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ruth Graham (@publicroad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/publicroad\/status\/1379899556968734720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpThSJsXEzY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/news\/local\/2021\/04\/08\/liberty-university-campus-pastor-announces-resignation-after-nearly-seven-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University&rsquo;s campus pastor has announced his resignation through a social media post to students Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>David Nasser, L&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5477\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Campus Pastor David Nasser stepping down<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-campus-pastor-david-nasser-stepping-down","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1ql","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}