{"id":43762,"date":"2014-04-24T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_clergy_who_no_longer_believe_gather_online\/"},"modified":"2014-04-24T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T21:30:13","slug":"rns_clergy_who_no_longer_believe_gather_online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43762","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Clergy who no longer believe gather online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Dunphy came to seminary in her mid-20s, full of passion to work in the service of the Catholic Church. By the time she left, for many reasons, she had lost her faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had this struggle where I thought, \u201d\u02dcI don\u2019t believe this anymore,\u2019\u201d\u009d said Dunphy, now 40 and living in Toronto. \u201cI felt I had no space to move or breathe. I felt like an outcast.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Now, 10 years later, she is part of a new online project aimed at helping others like herself who are isolated by doubt in a sea of believers. Called Rational Doubt: The Clergy Project Blog, it debuts this week on Patheos, an online host of religion and spirituality blogs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/04\/24\/losing-religion-clergy-longer-believe-gather-online\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Dunphy came to seminary in her mid-20s, full of passion to work in the service of the Catholic Church. By the time she left, for many reasons, she had lost her faith. \u201cI had this struggle where I thought,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43762\">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":[48,39,42,433,425,94,435,155,184,129,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-atheism","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43762","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=43762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}