{"id":9000,"date":"2018-10-15T05:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T09:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2018-10-15T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:36:08","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9000","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Five years ago, I moved from the Bible Belt to New York City and ran headfirst into an unexpected language barrier. Sure, I could still speak English as well as I always had. But I could no longer \u201cspeak God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By this I mean that spiritual conversations, once a natural part of each day for me, suddenly became a struggle. Whether I spoke to a stranger or a friend, the exchange flowed freely so long as I stuck to small talk. But conversations stalled out the moment the subject turned spiritual.<\/p>\n<p>Before relocating, I worked as a part-time minister at a suburban congregation outside of Atlanta. Before that, I had attended a Christian college and seminary. All my life, I used religious language daily in my home and community, rarely pausing to think about the meaning of my words. But I was not in Georgia anymore.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/talk-god-sprituality-christian.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Merritt<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What makes this opinion piece so striking is that Merritt never considers the most plausible explanation of all &#8212; that the world outside his bubble knows that his narrative has no more intellectual dignity than Jack and the Beanstalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, I moved from the Bible Belt to New York City and ran headfirst into an unexpected language barrier. Sure, I could still speak English as well as I always had. But I could no longer \u201cspeak God.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9000\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9008,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}