{"id":24638,"date":"2011-10-26T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=24638"},"modified":"2011-10-26T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:14:23","slug":"questions-for-god-from-behind-bars-morford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/10\/26\/questions-for-god-from-behind-bars-morford\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for God from behind bars [Morford]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redletterchristians.org\/questions-for-god-from-behind-bars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Questions for God from behind bars<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from redletterchristians.org by Morf Morford<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Behind Bars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redletterchristians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Behind-Bars-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"187\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What question would you ask God? I was naive enough to raise that question in my class at the county jail. These guys; felons, addicts, forty year old high school drop-outs, had some remarkable insights about who a believable god should be \u2013 and what He should be able to do \u2013 and how \u2013 or whether \u2013 it mattered that anything like God existed. Dinosaurs, injustice, seemingly unfair or exploitive actions by others \u2013 especially adults toward children \u2013 and why it was so much easier to be bad than to be good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I left the worksheets behind and came into the jail with a large sheet of paper that I could stick to the bare wall and some markers. I had no lesson plan, no materials, no agenda. I took a big gulp and entered the jail with prayer and my blank sheet of paper. I asked the inmates what they needed to talk about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for God from behind bars &#8212; from redletterchristians.org by Morf Morford Excerpt: What question would you ask God? I was naive enough to raise that question in my class at the county jail. These guys; felons, addicts, forty year old high school drop-outs, had some remarkable insights about who a believable god should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,500,248,480],"tags":[213,772,798,696,792],"class_list":["post-24638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-relationships","category-society","tag-culture","tag-faith-wisdom","tag-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","tag-relationships","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24640,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions\/24640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}