{"id":42898,"date":"2017-06-16T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42898"},"modified":"2017-06-16T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:15:14","slug":"15-best-books-read-faith-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/15-best-books-read-faith-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The 15 \u201cBest Books\u201d to Read BEFORE Having a Faith Crisis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42899\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/06\/Paisatge_de_Santa_Coloma_de_Queralt_Conca_de_Barber%C3%A0_17224949504.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42899\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42899\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/06\/Paisatge_de_Santa_Coloma_de_Queralt_Conca_de_Barber%C3%A0_17224949504.jpg\" alt=\"Catalonian countryside\" width=\"597\" height=\"398\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A landscape in Catalonia \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A very helpful list prepared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/nealr\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neal Rappleye<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioetquoquefide.com\/2017\/06\/the-15-best-books-to-read-before-having.html?spref=fb\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.studioetquoquefide.com\/2017\/06\/the-15-best-books-to-read-before-having.html?spref=fb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I absolutely agree\u00a0that it\u2019s best to fortify oneself against assaults on one\u2019s faith before they come, rather than trying to repair\u00a0gaps in the fortress wall after enemy troops have breached one\u2019s perimeter defenses and begun to wreak havoc within.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I myself have posted a short related piece, several times:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/09\/once-again-some-books-to-build-faith.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOnce again, four books to build faith\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A very helpful list prepared by Neal Rappleye: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.studioetquoquefide.com\/2017\/06\/the-15-best-books-to-read-before-having.html?spref=fb \u00a0 I absolutely agree\u00a0that it\u2019s best to fortify oneself against assaults on one\u2019s faith before they come, rather than trying to repair\u00a0gaps in the fortress wall after enemy troops have breached one\u2019s perimeter defenses and begun to wreak havoc within. \u00a0 I myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The 15 \u201cBest Books\u201d to Read BEFORE Having a Faith Crisis&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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