{"id":48660,"date":"2015-03-03T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_leaving_your_religion_now_theres_a_hotline_to_help\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:02:26","slug":"rns_leaving_your_religion_now_theres_a_hotline_to_help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48660","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Leaving your religion? Now, there\u2019s a hotline to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new crisis hotline for those struggling between faith and atheism [was] launched [this past] Friday (Feb. 27).<\/p>\n<p>Called \u201cThe Hotline Project,\u201d\u009d the 24-hour free service will match volunteers with people who are considering leaving religion. It is a project of Recovering From Religion, a Kansas City, Mo.-based nonprofit that aids those transitioning out of faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people are reconsidering the role religion plays in their lives, they risk losing their families, their spouses, their jobs,\u201d\u009d said Sarah Morehead, executive director of Recovering From Religion. \u201cThese people are isolated, excluded, shunned. It rocks these people to the bottom of their hearts. It is heartbreaking.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/02\/27\/new-hotline-launches-help-people-leave-religion-behind\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new crisis hotline for those struggling between faith and atheism [was] launched [this past] Friday (Feb. 27). Called \u201cThe Hotline Project,\u201d\u009d the 24-hour free service will match volunteers with people who are considering leaving religion. It is a project<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48660\">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":[39,42,425,155,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48660","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=48660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}