{"id":2356,"date":"2008-04-02T05:02:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2008-06-17T06:28:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T11:28:39","slug":"minnesota-blogs-you-should-be-reading-within-the-discord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Blogs You Should Be Reading: Within the Discord"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewhere in Corinthians, it says that God gives people gifts in the faith according to what people can best put to use – or words to that effect (I blame translation difficulties from the Greek for any misunderstandings. That’s the ticket).<\/p>\n

Which is one of the reasons I don’t write a whole lot about religion; God’s seen fit to put my strengths in areas other than “being articulate about faith”.<\/p>\n

But it’s always a treat – and a blessing, in every sense of the term – when I find someone who not only writes articulately about faith, but asks the big questions and reflects the churn a lot of us feel in looking (or waiting) for the answers.<\/p>\n

Which is why I like Amanda Carranza’s “Within the Discord<\/a>” so much.<\/p>\n

Yes, I said big questions:<\/p>\n

A lot of things have happened the last few days, a lot of things reminding me of just what an active role my Heavenly Father plays in not only my life, but my every happiness. A lot of these things are confusing, yet exciting, and I’m not exactly sure what to do with them. How do I harness this and bring glory to God through the written word? How do I encourage others with my blatherings, and yet not come across as self-important? (How do I not feel<\/em> self-important when something I write just happens to make sense in my own head?) How do I convey my flaws, how do I prevent myself from shying away from them? How do I present who I am, my identity of who God sees me as, as accurately as can be expected, and yet still encourage each others and not thoroughly discourage myself?<\/p>\n

Well, there’s a question, can I become thoroughly discouraged while examining myself through God’s eyes?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, reading pushes me to ask the same questions – and that’s usually pretty revelatory, or at least something most of us could stand to do more of, no matter what <\/em>we believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somewhere in Corinthians, it says that God gives people gifts in the faith according to what people can best put to use – or words to that effect (I blame translation difficulties from the Greek for any misunderstandings. That’s the ticket). Which is one of the reasons I don’t write a whole lot about religion; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-faiths-and-their-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}