{"id":23705,"date":"2013-12-13T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23705"},"modified":"2016-05-08T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T16:58:02","slug":"my-faith-reimagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23705","title":{"rendered":"My Faith:  Reimagined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Winter Moon<\/p>\n<p>I needed the philosophical last night because the cards ran strong against me at sheepshead. \u00a0Near the end I picked on weak hands just to have a part in the game.<\/p>\n<p>The current state of my reimagined faith is a lumpy stew, made of bits from here and there, but that in itself may be a sign of the transitional time in which we live, a transition from Enlightenment certainty to the post-modern uncertain, from Modern meta-narratives that guided life to post-modern personal narratives.<\/p>\n<p>What would a more compact version look like? \u00a0The Great Wheel positions us in this world and affirms our part in an ongoing and ever renewing cycle of life. \u00a0This cycle allows us to see that our efforts are not futile or meaningless, but additive and communal. \u00a0In both the additive and communal senses our life work can (should?) enrich our own lives and the lives of others. \u00a0An important, even central, aspect of this work right now involves creation of a sustainable human footprint on planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not bad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Winter Moon I needed the philosophical last night because the cards ran strong against me at sheepshead. \u00a0Near the end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Faith:  Reimagined<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reimagining-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38748,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705\/revisions\/38748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}