{"id":21551,"date":"2010-08-30T17:52:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nanaimo_daily_news-people_find_spirituality_outside_the_mainstream\/"},"modified":"2010-08-30T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:52:13","slug":"nanaimo_daily_news-people_find_spirituality_outside_the_mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21551","title":{"rendered":"(Nanaimo Daily News)&#8211;People find spirituality outside the mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Lane believes people are searching for more than traditional answers to their spiritual needs.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians are more often looking away from traditional western religions to fulfill those needs.<\/p>\n<p>Lane understands why events like Saturday&#8217;s Pagan Pride Day are attracting more and more people every year and why a growing number of young people are not attending traditional churches.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Brian Evans of St. Paul&#8217;s Anglican Church can&#8217;t put his finger on why, but agrees a growing number of people in British Columbia are looking elsewhere for spiritual fulfilment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the indicators tell us that we (B.C.) have the highest percentage of people in North America who do not participate in traditional Christian Church practices,&#8221; Evans said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/People+find+spirituality+outside+mainstream\/3459447\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Lane believes people are searching for more than traditional answers to their spiritual needs. Canadians are more often looking away from traditional western religions to fulfill those needs. Lane understands why events like Saturday&#8217;s Pagan Pride Day are attracting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21551\">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":[39,50,207,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21551","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=21551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}