{"id":9269,"date":"2008-10-27T21:28:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T21:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/evangelical_church_program_explores_skepticism_atheism\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T21:28:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T21:28:35","slug":"evangelical_church_program_explores_skepticism_atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9269","title":{"rendered":"Evangelical church program explores skepticism, atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When she was 20, Jessi Thull&#8217;s father died of cancer, an event that took seven months from diagnosis to death, and that she describes now as &#8220;overwhelming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thull was brought up as a church-going Christian, but her father&#8217;s death and the resulting pain made her question God&#8217;s existence. &#8220;I had no sense as to how there could be a good God who would just watch as a family falls apart,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Thull, now 26 and reconciled with God, was examining her skepticism recently as part of a program at The Journey, a popular evangelical church in south St. Louis that is taking dead aim at the resurging popularity of doubt and skepticism in American society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2008\/oct\/26\/evangelical_church_program_explores_skep59142\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she was 20, Jessi Thull&#8217;s father died of cancer, an event that took seven months from diagnosis to death, and that she describes now as &#8220;overwhelming.&#8221; Thull was brought up as a church-going Christian, but her father&#8217;s death and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9269\">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":[48,42,174,425,419,440,154,155,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-apologetics","category-atheism","category-evangelicals","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","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=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}