{"id":8086,"date":"2019-08-12T23:42:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2019-08-12T23:42:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:42:04","slug":"am-i-acting-like-i-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8086","title":{"rendered":"Am I Acting Like I Believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Evans-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Evans-18.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Evans-18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Evans-18-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So perhaps a better question than &#8220;Do I believe in miracles?&#8221; is &#8220;Am I acting like I do?&#8221;  Am I including the people who are typically excluded?  Am I feeding the hungry and caring for the sick?  Am I holding the hands of the homeless and offering help to addicts?  Am I working to break down religious and political barriers that marginalize ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities and people with disabilities?  Am I behaving as though life is more than a meaningless, chaotic mess, that there is some order in the storm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Held Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/inspired.html\">Inspired<\/a>,<\/em> p. 186<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, August 3, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So perhaps a better question than &#8220;Do I believe in miracles?&#8221; is &#8220;Am I acting like I do?&#8221; Am I including the people who are typically excluded? Am I feeding the hungry and caring for the sick? Am I holding the hands of the homeless and offering help to addicts? Am I working to break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,44,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calling","category-faith","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8088,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}