{"id":25009,"date":"2014-07-01T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T12:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=25009"},"modified":"2014-07-01T08:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T12:02:42","slug":"a-mature-kind-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/a-mature-kind-of-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"A Mature Kind of Faith"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-25010\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/06\/I-just-want-a-more-mature-kind-of-faith.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n<p>The quote is taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2014\/06\/27\/historians-claim-about-archaeological-evidence-surrounding-the-bible-and-christian-history-that-might-stun-atheists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an interview Candida Moss did with The Blaze<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quote is taken from an interview Candida Moss did with The Blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":25010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[1541,3215,3329,9854],"class_list":["post-25009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-candida-moss","tag-evidence","tag-faith","tag-quote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Mature Kind of Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The quote is taken from an interview Candida Moss did with The Blaze.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/a-mature-kind-of-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Mature Kind of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The quote is taken from an interview Candida Moss did with The Blaze.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/a-mature-kind-of-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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