{"id":24533,"date":"2011-02-13T23:31:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T23:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/philadelphia_inquirer_social_media_a_blessing_for_some_religious_leaders\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T23:31:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T23:31:33","slug":"philadelphia_inquirer_social_media_a_blessing_for_some_religious_leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24533","title":{"rendered":"(Philadelphia Inquirer) Social media a blessing for some religious Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick survey of priests, ministers, rabbis, and one imam made clear that social media were made for religion, in which connection and community are key.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Facebook,&#8221; says Pastor Andrena Ingram of St. Michael&#8217;s Lutheran Church in Mount Airy. &#8220;You just reach everybody and anybody.&#8221; Like many religious congregations, St. Michael&#8217;s has a robust website. &#8220;When people come to visit us from out of town, very often it&#8217;s because they saw the website.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, Ingram posts news and announcements, and coordinates a youth group. She also runs a separate Facebook page &#8220;to minister to those both infected and affected with HIV,&#8221; connecting her with people as far away as Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a cyber-pastorship,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/13\/social-media-a-blessing-for-some\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick survey of priests, ministers, rabbis, and one imam made clear that social media were made for religion, in which connection and community are key. &#8220;I love Facebook,&#8221; says Pastor Andrena Ingram of St. Michael&#8217;s Lutheran Church in Mount<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24533\">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":[48,39,42,433,94,426,429,155,184,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-islam","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24533","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=24533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}