{"id":42665,"date":"2018-01-08T06:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=42665"},"modified":"2018-01-08T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:47:45","slug":"mistaking-fear-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/01\/mistaking-fear-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Mistaking Fear for 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><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If your faith is so fragile it cannot handle questions, doubts, and honest inquiry, if it is so threatened by the full engagement of your heart &amp; mind it runs from potential challenges, that\u2019s not faith; it\u2019s fear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rachel Held Evans (@rachelheldevans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachelheldevans\/status\/949715973824708608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">January 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The quote above from Rachel Held Evans deserves to circulate widely. Of related interest, see my posts <a href=\"%E2%80%9Chttps:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/the-opposite-of-faith.html%E2%80%9D\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201dThe Opposite of Faith,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"%E2%80%9Chttps:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/06\/mind-changing-as-religious-imperative.html%E2%80%9D\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMind Changing as Religious Imperative\u201d<\/a>, <a href=\"%E2%80%9Chttps:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/testing-faith.html%E2%80%9D\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201dTesting Faith,\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"%E2%80%9Chttps:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/11\/the-fear-of-doubt-truth-and-tribalism.html%E2%80%9D\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201dFear of Doubt (Truth and Tribalism\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your faith is so fragile it cannot handle questions, doubts, and honest inquiry, if it is so threatened by the full engagement of your heart &amp; mind it runs from potential challenges, that\u2019s not faith; it\u2019s fear. \u2014 Rachel Held Evans (@rachelheldevans) January 6, 2018 The quote above from Rachel Held Evans deserves to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":42666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[3329,3378,9891],"class_list":["post-42665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-faith","tag-fear","tag-rachel-held-evans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mistaking Fear for Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If your faith is so fragile it cannot handle questions, doubts, and honest inquiry, if it is so threatened by the full engagement of your heart &amp; mind\" \/>\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\/2018\/01\/mistaking-fear-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mistaking Fear for Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If your faith is so fragile it cannot handle questions, doubts, and honest inquiry, if it is so threatened by the full engagement of your heart &amp; mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/01\/mistaking-fear-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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