{"id":23456,"date":"2010-12-15T22:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reginald_stackhouse-fitting_worship_to_the_worshippers_lifestyle\/"},"modified":"2010-12-15T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T22:26:35","slug":"reginald_stackhouse-fitting_worship_to_the_worshippers_lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23456","title":{"rendered":"Reginald Stackhouse&#8211;Fitting worship to the worshippers&#39; lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is magnificent,\u201d\u009d an American visitor whispers to his Toronto host. Then adds, \u201cOf course, this is an Anglican town.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Was he hallucinating? No. In 1963, it was. Then there were enough Anglicans in Toronto to host the largest world conference that denomination ever held \u201d\u201c with delegates from five continents.<\/p>\n<p>Why in 2010 is all that unthinkable? Instead of sponsoring that kind of mega-event, why do Anglican leaders in Toronto have to cope with a report recommending the closing of 15 once thriving parish churches.<\/p>\n<p>What has happened in the past 50 years to produce this decline? Are Anglicans finding \u201cgodlessness\u201d\u009d a better option? Have they lost all confidence in their bishops and clergy? Are they flocking to other religions?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/opinions\/opinion\/fitting-worship-to-the-worshippers-lifestyle\/article1836374\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is magnificent,\u201d\u009d an American visitor whispers to his Toronto host. Then adds, \u201cOf course, this is an Anglican town.\u201d\u009d Was he hallucinating? No. In 1963, it was. Then there were enough Anglicans in Toronto to host the largest world<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23456\">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":[48,39,50,207,183,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456","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=23456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}