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\"Chuck<\/p>\n

Healthy doubt is often the prelude to deeper relationships and a richer faith\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

If our doubts can lead us into a deeper connection to our faith tradition where orthopraxy trumps orthodoxy and into a deeper relationship with the Divine where love trumps doctrine then we may indeed find religion and spirituality life transforming.<\/span>Good religion and spirituality make us good and compel us to pursue the good within ourselves and in our larger world, thus inspiring us to work for the common good of society and our planet. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013 Chuck Queen, \u201cThe Sacredness of Doubt,\u201d<\/a> Baptist News<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Healthy doubt is often the prelude to deeper relationships and a richer faith\u2026 If our doubts can lead us into a deeper connection to our faith tradition where orthopraxy trumps orthodoxy and into a deeper relationship with the Divine where love trumps doctrine then we may indeed find religion and spirituality life transforming.Good religion and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":29949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[1003,1879,2819,6527,8509,8511,8513,9593,10664],"class_list":["post-29947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-baptist","tag-chuck-queen","tag-doubt","tag-liberal","tag-orthodoxy","tag-orthopraxis","tag-orthopraxy","tag-progressive","tag-sacred"],"yoast_head":"\nSacred Doubt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Healthy doubt is often the prelude to deeper relationships and a richer faith... 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