{"id":2249,"date":"2007-10-02T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bibleblet_blogger_losses_accelerated_for_episcopal_church_in_2006\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T22:22:00","slug":"bibleblet_blogger_losses_accelerated_for_episcopal_church_in_2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"BibleBelt Blogger: Losses accelerated for Episcopal Church in 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Membership in the Episcopal Church dropped by 48,971 to 2,320,506 during 2006, according to preliminary statistics from the denomination&#8217;s research office. Overall membership dropped roughly 2.1 percent, from 2,369,477 in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Average Sunday attendance dropped 26,018 to 804,688 from 830,706 in 2005. If I&#8217;m doing the math right, that&#8217;s a 3.1 percent decline.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, membership in 2005 dropped 35,688 from 2004 levels. Attendance fell only 2,966 between 2004 and 2005.<\/p>\n<p>CAUTION: These are preliminary statistics. The final statistics will likely be released later this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.arkansasonline.com\/blogs\/bible-blog\/2007\/oct\/01\/losses-acce125\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Membership in the Episcopal Church dropped by 48,971 to 2,320,506 during 2006, according to preliminary statistics from the denomination&#8217;s research office. Overall membership dropped roughly 2.1 percent, from 2,369,477 in 2005. Average Sunday attendance dropped 26,018 to 804,688 from 830,706<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2249\">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":[36,66,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","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=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}