{"id":25114,"date":"2011-03-16T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_christians_question_conventional_wisdom_on_divorce_stats\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:00:27","slug":"rns_christians_question_conventional_wisdom_on_divorce_stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25114","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Christians Question Conventional Wisdom on Divorce Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been proclaimed from pulpits and blogs for years\u201d\u201dChristians divorce as much as everyone else in America.<\/p>\n<p>But some scholars and family activists are questioning the oft-cited statistics, saying Christians who attend church regularly are more likely to remain wed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a useful myth,\u201d\u009d said Bradley Wright, a University of Connecticut sociologist who recently wrote \u201cChristians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites &#8230; and Other Lies You\u2019ve Been Told.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause if a pastor wants to preach about how Christians should take their marriages more seriously, he or she can trot out this statistic to get them to listen to him or her.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/christians-question-conventional-wisdom-on-divorce-stats-cms-17597\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been proclaimed from pulpits and blogs for years\u201d\u201dChristians divorce as much as everyone else in America. But some scholars and family activists are questioning the oft-cited statistics, saying Christians who attend church regularly are more likely to remain wed.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25114\">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":[39,168,98,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25114","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=25114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}