{"id":12370,"date":"2009-04-20T00:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/news_and_observer_why_do_people_choose_the_parish_where_they_worship\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T00:45:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T00:45:10","slug":"news_and_observer_why_do_people_choose_the_parish_where_they_worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12370","title":{"rendered":"News and Observer: Why do People Choose the Parish Where they Worship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As brand loyalty to everything from detergents to cell phone carriers is dwindling, so too is loyalty to a denomination that may have nurtured and formed successive generations in a particular faith tradition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People tend to go churches that meet their needs before they ever look at the name on the sign,&#8221; said Bill Leonard, dean of the divinity school at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for this switching is that people choose congregations for many reasons, not all of them spiritual. In many cases, they are practical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/105\/story\/1478141.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As brand loyalty to everything from detergents to cell phone carriers is dwindling, so too is loyalty to a denomination that may have nurtured and formed successive generations in a particular faith tradition. &#8220;People tend to go churches that meet<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12370\">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":[48,39,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370","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=12370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}