{"id":6561,"date":"2010-09-29T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2012-04-17T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:04:56","slug":"when-atheists-and-baptists-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/when-atheists-and-baptists-agree\/","title":{"rendered":"When atheists and Baptists agree"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– St. Augustine<\/p>\n

A brilliant quote from St. Augustine, as referenced by Rachel Evans<\/a> in her Washington Post column<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I interviewed Rachel for our podcast<\/a> a week or two ago and just finished reading her book, “Evolving in Monkey Town<\/a>.” A great read.<\/p>\n

In the book (and somewhat in the column) Rachel lays out her memories and discusses how being given the space to ask questions and have doubt actually helped save her faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a great example of why building spaces of grace have become so important to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress … Continue reading When atheists and Baptists agree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[3838,1374,3836,3837,165,3835,565],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-athiesm","tag-book","tag-evolving","tag-monkey-town","tag-podcast","tag-rachel-held-evans","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1HP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}