{"id":614,"date":"2008-02-22T21:55:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T05:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/02\/22\/a-sad-sad-story\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T21:55:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T05:55:27","slug":"a-sad-sad-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/02\/22\/a-sad-sad-story\/","title":{"rendered":"a sad, sad, story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity Today linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/psychologytoday.com\/articles\/index.php?term=pto-20071228-000003&amp;print=1\">An Atheist in the Pulpit<\/a> from Psychology Today. It is lengthy, depressing, sad, and hopeless. It isn&#8217;t unfamiliar &#8211; many people, raised in Christian homes, or involved in Christian ministries of various kinds, make utter shipwrecks of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really say much about the article, but I think you should read it. This is the last paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When you&#8217;ve lost God, how do you fill the void? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m wrestling with now,&#8221; says James McAllister. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have anyone to talk to in my heart. The prayers I used to say, I simply don&#8217;t bother anymore. I obviously regard prayer to be silly, even. But it was a comforting place that I could go. I&#8217;ve let that go. And there is a void. And hopefully it can be replaced just by appreciating being alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/don-sig17.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity Today linked to An Atheist in the Pulpit from Psychology Today. It is lengthy, depressing, sad, and hopeless. It isn&#8217;t unfamiliar &#8211; many people, raised in Christian homes, or involved in Christian ministries of various kinds, make utter shipwrecks of their lives. I can&#8217;t really say much about the article, but I think you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-9U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}