{"id":25441,"date":"2011-04-04T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_religion_and_social_media\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T00:00:50","slug":"religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_religion_and_social_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25441","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Religion and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KIM LAWTON, correspondent: On any given weekend, some 15,000 people worship with the evangelical Northland Church, but about a third of them never set foot in the building here in Longwood, Florida. They\u2019re worshiping online via the Web and Facebook and Smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>MARTY TAYLOR (Northland Church, Director of Media Design): We call ourselves a church distributed because we don\u2019t want to be confined to this space. We want to be everywhere, every day, and technology is a great tool for us to be able to do that.<\/p>\n<p>LAWTON: On site, worship leaders always welcome the online participants. On this Sunday that includes a small gathering at a nearby prison and people from as far away as Japan. As the main service progresses, online minister Nathan Clark connects with his virtual flock&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/april-1-2011\/religion-and-social-media\/8470\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIM LAWTON, correspondent: On any given weekend, some 15,000 people worship with the evangelical Northland Church, but about a third of them never set foot in the building here in Longwood, Florida. They\u2019re worshiping online via the Web and Facebook<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25441\">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":[48,39,50,433,209,94,184,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-americau-s-a","category-blogging-the-internet","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25441","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=25441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}