{"id":479,"date":"2011-01-03T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/faith-doubt-and-agnosticism-around-the-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2011-01-03T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T13:02:00","slug":"faith-doubt-and-agnosticism-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/faith-doubt-and-agnosticism-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith, Doubt and Agnosticism around the Blogosphere"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/likeachildscience.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/ups-and-downs-of-2010.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Like a Child<\/a> discusses a heartwrenching year of disentangling herself from fundamentalism.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/wheatamongtares.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/pew-sitting.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Terri<\/a> discusses agnosticism and church attendance.<br>Jim Burklo <a href=\"http:\/\/tcpc.blogs.com\/musings\/2011\/01\/the-active-ingredient.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">takes comfort in rituals<\/a>.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/blogs\/archive\/2011-01\/if-only-you-were-more-educated-then-you-would-agree-me\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carol Merritt<\/a> shares thoughts on education, progressives and conservatives.<br>C. J. O\u2019Brien discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/northstatescience.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/02\/what-christianity-should-be-about\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">what Christianity should be about<\/a>.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/awilum.com\/?p=1516\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charles Halton recommends <i>changing your mind<\/i><\/a>\u00a0this year (including a \u2018poem\u2019 by Donald Rumsfeld!).<br><a href=\"http:\/\/danutm.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/02\/peter-enns-on-the-benefits-of-doubt-for-the-life-of-faith\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">D\u0103nu\u0163 M\u0103n\u0103stireanu<\/a> shared a <a href=\"http:\/\/peterennsonline.com\/2010\/11\/24\/the-benefit-of-doubt-coming-to-terms-with-faith-in-a-post-modern-era\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">link to Pete Enns\u2019 piece from back in November<\/a> on the benefits of doubt for the life of faith.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/scotteriology.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/03\/the-second-dumbing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scott Bailey doubts Harold Camping\u2019s latest prediction<\/a> about the second coming happening in May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3711788489946492634?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a Child discusses a heartwrenching year of disentangling herself from fundamentalism.Terri discusses agnosticism and church attendance.Jim Burklo takes comfort in rituals.Carol Merritt shares thoughts on education, progressives and conservatives.C. J. O\u2019Brien discusses what Christianity should be about.Charles Halton recommends changing your mind\u00a0this year (including a \u2018poem\u2019 by Donald Rumsfeld!).D\u0103nu\u0163 M\u0103n\u0103stireanu shared a link to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","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>Faith, Doubt and Agnosticism around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Like a Child discusses a heartwrenching year of disentangling herself from fundamentalism.Terri discusses agnosticism and church attendance.Jim Burklo\" \/>\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\/2011\/01\/faith-doubt-and-agnosticism-around-the-blogosphere.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faith, Doubt and Agnosticism around the Blogosphere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Like a Child discusses a heartwrenching year of disentangling herself from fundamentalism.Terri discusses agnosticism and church attendance.Jim Burklo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/faith-doubt-and-agnosticism-around-the-blogosphere.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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