{"id":26530,"date":"2011-06-04T01:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/some_canadians_debate_where_will_the_church_be_in_50_years\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T01:22:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T01:22:45","slug":"some_canadians_debate_where_will_the_church_be_in_50_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26530","title":{"rendered":"Some Canadians Debate: where will the church be in 50 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where will the church be in 50 years? That was the topic up for debate and discussion Sunday afternoon in historic St. George\u2019s Anglican overlooking the blue waters of Lake Simcoe.<br \/>\nWill St. George\u2019s or its sister church, St. James, still be here? Considering the former\u2019s historic significance, undoubtedly. Will many of the other Anglican and traditional \u201cmainstream\u201d\u009d Christian churches? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>That was the consensus during a panel discussion, featuring participation from Rev. Canon John Hill, priest and theologian of the Anglican Church of Canada, lay theologian Ken McClure, lay theologian and youth worker Geoffrey Newland, with a special retrospective from Georgina Island First Nations member Delores Charles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkregion.com\/news\/article\/1019732--why-empty-pews-in-georgina-churches\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where will the church be in 50 years? That was the topic up for debate and discussion Sunday afternoon in historic St. George\u2019s Anglican overlooking the blue waters of Lake Simcoe. Will St. George\u2019s or its sister church, St. James,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26530\">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":[48,39,50,207,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26530","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=26530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}