{"id":32272,"date":"2012-05-01T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_from_minister_to_atheist_a_story_of_losing_faith\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:04:33","slug":"npr_from_minister_to_atheist_a_story_of_losing_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32272","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) From Minister To Atheist: A Story Of Losing Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa MacBain has a secret, one she&#8217;s terrified to reveal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m currently an active pastor and I&#8217;m also an atheist,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I live a double life. I feel pretty good on Monday, but by Thursday \u201d\u201d when Sunday&#8217;s right around the corner \u201d\u201d I start having stomachaches, headaches, just knowing that I got to stand up and say things that I no longer believe in and portray myself in a way that&#8217;s totally false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MacBain glances nervously around the room. It&#8217;s a Sunday, and normally she would be preaching at her church in Tallahassee, Fla. But here she is, sneaking away to the American Atheists&#8217; convention in Bethesda, Md.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/04\/30\/151681248\/from-minister-to-atheist-a-story-of-losing-faith\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa MacBain has a secret, one she&#8217;s terrified to reveal. &#8220;I&#8217;m currently an active pastor and I&#8217;m also an atheist,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I live a double life. I feel pretty good on Monday, but by Thursday \u201d\u201d when Sunday&#8217;s right<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32272\">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":[48,42,425,360,435,154,155,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272","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=32272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}