{"id":26774,"date":"2011-06-17T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_tennessean_signs_of_decline_mount_for_southern_baptists\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:59:16","slug":"the_tennessean_signs_of_decline_mount_for_southern_baptists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26774","title":{"rendered":"(The Tennessean) Signs of decline mount for Southern Baptists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baptisms fell to their lowest number in 60 years among Southern Baptists, the nation\u2019s largest Protestant denomination.<\/p>\n<p>The new numbers are a sign that the denomination is in trouble, Baptist leaders say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a blip,\u201d\u009d said Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research. \u201cThis is a trend. And, the trend is one of decline.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20110611\/NEWS\/306110025\/Signs-decline-mount-Southern-Baptists\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baptisms fell to their lowest number in 60 years among Southern Baptists, the nation\u2019s largest Protestant denomination. The new numbers are a sign that the denomination is in trouble, Baptist leaders say. \u201cThis is not a blip,\u201d\u009d said Ed Stetzer,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26774\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,422,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-baptists","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26774","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=26774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}