{"id":10241,"date":"2008-12-19T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/raleigh_nc_news_and_observer_diversity_arises_in_more_churches\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T16:00:24","slug":"raleigh_nc_news_and_observer_diversity_arises_in_more_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10241","title":{"rendered":"(Raleigh, N.C.) News and Observer: Diversity arises in more churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday service at Durham&#8217;s King&#8217;s Park International Church features a blast of hymns, gospel and praise music performed live and loud by band members that are as multi-racial as the people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The church, one of the Triangle&#8217;s most diverse, is a prime example of a trend.<\/p>\n<p>A new study of U.S. religious congregations by a Duke University sociologist shows significant changes in the racial composition of churches within just nine years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/lifestyles\/religion\/story\/1338131.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday service at Durham&#8217;s King&#8217;s Park International Church features a blast of hymns, gospel and praise music performed live and loud by band members that are as multi-racial as the people in attendance. The church, one of the Triangle&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10241\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,154,184,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-racerace-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}