{"id":621,"date":"2007-09-04T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2007-09-04T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T21:04:53","slug":"matters-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Matters of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Mansell has been knocking it out of the park lately over on <a href=http:\/\/www.xenodochion.net\/>the Xenodochion<\/a>.  Recent posts continue Matt&#8217;s musing over his (Christian) faith and what that means. I&#8217;ve found them both fascinating and inspiring, even though (or because?) I don&#8217;t share Matt&#8217;s faith.<br \/>\nMatters of faith have been on my mind in recent months. Recent events have put me in church frequently, and despite being your typical lapsed-believer secular\/agnostic, I&#8217;ve found that it all still speaks to me and has a wonderful and positive reality to it. That said, my religious\/faith identity doesn&#8217;t seem to be shifting as a result, except to accommodate a more nuanced understanding of what I have moved away from and what &#8220;moved away from&#8221; might mean.<br \/>\nIn any case, I recommend you go read some of the Xenodochion, whatever your view on matters of faith, particularly this piece on <a href=http:\/\/www.xenodochion.net\/Not_the_advertised_questions>those controversial paintings in that Australian art award<\/a>.  (For comparison: <a href=http:\/\/fundypost.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/art-and-man.html>The Fundy Post takes on the same issue<\/a>.)  Matt&#8217;s take on things might not be what you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Mansell has been knocking it out of the park lately over on the Xenodochion. Recent posts continue Matt&#8217;s musing over his (Christian) faith and what that means. I&#8217;ve found them both fascinating and inspiring, even though (or because?) I don&#8217;t share Matt&#8217;s faith. Matters of faith have been on my mind in recent months. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matters of Faith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-a1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}