{"id":8864,"date":"2011-08-24T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nakedpastor.com\/?p=8864"},"modified":"2011-08-24T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:37:15","slug":"not-all-stories-end-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/2011\/08\/not-all-stories-end-well\/","title":{"rendered":"not all stories end well"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2011\/08\/stages-of-faith.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8865\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2011\/08\/stages-of-faith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"639\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a cartoon that loosely addresses James Fowler\u2019s famous book <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fowler's_stages_of_faith_development\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stages of Faith<\/a>. He claims there are five, but there is a sixth for a few. And unfortunately most of them are martyred.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it is important to be positive and strive for happiness. That is our right. But I get tired of the magical thinking of syrupy sentimental optimism that lives in a la-la land of denial.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the news! There are people who are born into horror, live through horror, and die in horror.<\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to those around you. There are people who live in a state of constant sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Not all stories end well.<\/p>\n<p><em>(A little bit of Ecclesiastes and Lamentations for us this morning.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Own the original drawing ($150 USD) <a href=\"mailto:haywardart@gmail.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">email me<\/a>.<br>\nBuy a print ($25) <a href=\"mailto:haywardart@gmail.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">email me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/nakedpastor101-Cartoons-David-Hayward\/dp\/1453898417\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1302774960&amp;sr=8-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2011\/08\/NP-Book-012.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"100\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a cartoon that loosely addresses James Fowler\u2019s famous book Stages of Faith. He claims there are five, but there is a sixth for a few. And unfortunately most of them are martyred. I believe it is important to be positive and strive for happiness. That is our right. But I get tired of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19,540,1111,722,2159,33],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","tag-cartoon","tag-comic","tag-david-hayward","tag-nakedpastor","tag-stages-of-faith","tag-suffering"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>not all stories end well<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is a cartoon that loosely addresses James Fowler&#039;s famous book Stages of Faith. 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