{"id":531,"date":"2007-10-03T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/10\/video-why-faith-1.html"},"modified":"2007-10-03T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:00:48","slug":"video-why-faith-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2007\/10\/video-why-faith-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: Why Faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mike Leach and I compiled our book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385508069\/beliefnet \">I Like Being Catholic<\/a>,&#8221; he listed ten reasons why a person should raise her kids Catholic. One was so that, as teenagers, the kids would have something to reject.When Katherine and David head off to college, they may become atheists. Especially if they go back and read the archives of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\">Beyond Blue<\/a> because they will see how dysfunctional my relationship with God is.Granted, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/06\/the-good-samaritan-and-lady-co.html\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not the most reverent chick on the Internet<\/a>. I get mad at God. A lot. But my faith is so critical to to my recovery from depression and addiction, because it gives me a sense of purpose, meaning, and safety in a very confusing, hurtful, messy, and dangerous world. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s times three if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bipolar.So in this video I wanted to show you St. Mary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Church in Annapolis, Maryland, where I attend Mass (semi-regularly) and where I light votive candles occasionally. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another one of my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/09\/god-places-the-minipilgrimage.html\">God places<\/a>,&#8221; like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/09\/video-blogging-a-new-feature.html\">the Naval Academy in my first video<\/a>.<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lfOw3EaxtDE\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lfOw3EaxtDE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mike Leach and I compiled our book &#8220;I Like Being Catholic,&#8221; he listed ten reasons why a person should raise her kids Catholic. One was so that, as teenagers, the kids would have something to reject.When Katherine and David head off to college, they may become atheists. 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