{"id":27269,"date":"2011-07-15T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vicars_deny_predictions_of_churchs_demise_by_2030\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T00:18:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T00:18:32","slug":"vicars_deny_predictions_of_churchs_demise_by_2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27269","title":{"rendered":"Vicars deny predictions of Church&#39;s demise by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grim forecasts indicating the Church of England will die in 20 years\u2019 time are exaggerated, Burton clergy have suggested.<\/p>\n<p>They spoke after a Norwich vicar, Reverend Dr Patrick Richmond, told the Church\u2019s ruling body that some projections claimed the \u201d\u02dcperfect storm\u2019 of ageing congregations and falling clergy numbers would kill Anglicanism by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible to read current trends and reach that conclusion, but at the same time my congregations at St Paul\u2019s and St Modwen\u2019s have actually seen noticeable growth over the last few years,\u201d\u009d countered Reverend Paul Farthing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burtonmail.co.uk\/News\/Vicars-deny-predictions-of-Churchs-demise-by-2030-14072011.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grim forecasts indicating the Church of England will die in 20 years\u2019 time are exaggerated, Burton clergy have suggested. They spoke after a Norwich vicar, Reverend Dr Patrick Richmond, told the Church\u2019s ruling body that some projections claimed the \u201d\u02dcperfect<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27269\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269","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=27269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}