{"id":41062,"date":"2013-11-15T04:44:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T04:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sally_quinn-believe_this_or_choose_not_to_the_search_for_meaning_in_our_li\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T04:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T04:44:42","slug":"sally_quinn-believe_this_or_choose_not_to_the_search_for_meaning_in_our_li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41062","title":{"rendered":"Sally Quinn&#8211;Believe this (or choose not to): The search for meaning in our lives takes many paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all searching for meaning in our lives, regardless of our beliefs or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few weeks, I have attended or read about four completely different events about the act of seeking and my mind is reeling. This is not unusual when you are working on a religion Web site such as On Faith. There are days when I feel schizophrenic: participating in religious events, being on panels, giving speeches, doing interviews, writing pieces or reading submissions for the site.  I always try to identify with the person who is writing or speaking or to whom I am listening or watching. The whole point of starting On Faith was to learn about faith, to understand the different beliefs and the people who do not adhere to any religion. I am totally pluralistic in my approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/believe-this-or-choose-not-to-the-search-for-meaning-in-our-lives-takes-many-paths\/2013\/11\/14\/30f0d4aa-4d55-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all searching for meaning in our lives, regardless of our beliefs or lack thereof. In the past few weeks, I have attended or read about four completely different events about the act of seeking and my mind is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41062\">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":[39,50,42,209,123,155,129,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-multiculturalism-pluralism","category-other-faiths","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41062","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=41062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}