{"id":12870,"date":"2009-05-18T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_local_raleigh_north_carolina_story_on_america_and_religion\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:01:18","slug":"a_local_raleigh_north_carolina_story_on_america_and_religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12870","title":{"rendered":"A Local Raleigh North Carolina Story on America and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three million Americans are now aligning themselves with other religious movements, such as New Age and Wicca. And the number of self-declared Muslims has doubled over the last two decades from .3 to .6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Michael Curry of North Carolina&#8217;s Episcopal Diocese says America is going through a cultural change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would argue that people are more profoundly religious and expressing it, but it&#8217;s coming out in new ways,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You hear it in language about &#8216;spirituality.&#8217; You may not hear it as consistently in terms of institutional religion, but the spiritual quest (is there), the hunger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To feed that hunger, the Episcopal Diocese has launched a new ad campaign to help attract worshippers, particularly younger ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wtvd\/story?section=news\/local&#038;id=6817707\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three million Americans are now aligning themselves with other religious movements, such as New Age and Wicca. And the number of self-declared Muslims has doubled over the last two decades from .3 to .6 percent. Bishop Michael Curry of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12870\">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":[36,48,39,66,440,184,108,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870","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=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}