{"id":21047,"date":"2010-08-02T00:27:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mormons_see_potential_in_proselytizing_online\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T00:27:31","slug":"mormons_see_potential_in_proselytizing_online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21047","title":{"rendered":"Mormons see potential in proselytizing online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Not so long ago, the LDS Church prohibited its missionaries from using the Internet, even to contact their families. The system then loosened a bit to allow weekly e-mails home and some occasional viewing of church materials.<\/p>\n<p>Now the nearly 14 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is attempting to revolutionize the way Mormons find converts and it\u2019s all online.<\/p>\n<p>This involves experimenting with blogging missionaries, self-produced member profiles and stereotype-bursting videos. The American-born church, which has been harnessing technology to promote the faith since the 1920 radio days, sees great potential in fast-paced storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet is the new \u201ctown square,\u201d\u009d said Ron Wilson, manager of Internet and marketing for the church. \u201cAnd Mormons are taking to it like never before.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sltrib.com\/sltrib\/home\/49942960-76\/church-missionaries-online-lds.html.csp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so long ago, the LDS Church prohibited its missionaries from using the Internet, even to contact their families. The system then loosened a bit to allow weekly e-mails home and some occasional viewing of church materials. Now the nearly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21047\">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":[39,42,94,428,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-blogging-the-internet","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047","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=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}