{"id":11257,"date":"2009-02-14T23:38:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T23:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/as_darwin_turns_200_jefferts_schori_the_scientist_reflects\/"},"modified":"2009-02-14T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T23:38:44","slug":"as_darwin_turns_200_jefferts_schori_the_scientist_reflects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11257","title":{"rendered":"As Darwin turns 200, Jefferts Schori the scientist reflects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before she was elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, when even the priesthood seemed an unlikely calling, a teenage Katharine Jefferts Schori wrestled with big questions through the night.<\/p>\n<p>In the darkness of the Stanford University chapel, she pondered the usual puzzles of young adulthood: Where do I belong? Why am I here? But Jefferts Schori was also hunting bigger fish\u201d\u201dhow to reconcile her Christian faith with the science she was learning as a biology major.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow to make sense of the wonders of creation and the scientific descriptions of how they came to be,\u201d\u009d Jefferts Schori recalled in an interview in her office here, \u201cI hadn\u2019t had any conscious assistance in how to deal with that as a child.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnstext\/on_darwins_200th_schori_the_scientist_reflects1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before she was elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, when even the priesthood seemed an unlikely calling, a teenage Katharine Jefferts Schori wrestled with big questions through the night. In the darkness of the Stanford University chapel, she<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11257\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,66,373,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-presiding-bishop","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}