{"id":28700,"date":"2011-10-11T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_briggs_on_clergy_pensions_retirement_the_economy_and_the_church\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T03:00:27","slug":"david_briggs_on_clergy_pensions_retirement_the_economy_and_the_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28700","title":{"rendered":"David Briggs on Clergy, Pensions, retirement, the Economy and the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like their secular counterparts, many clergy who devoted their attention to less temporal matters than financial planning now find themselves amid shrinking church budgets and a poor economy being forced to work beyond traditional retirement ages.<\/p>\n<p>It is an especially critical issue in smaller churches that still do not set aside money for clergy retirement. In a 2008 study of Church of Christ clergy in Texas, just a quarter of respondents said they had plans to fully retire.<\/p>\n<p>But it is also a burden for larger, mainline Protestant denominations. As memberships shrink and many older clergy find it financially untenable to retire, even fewer younger clergy are able to find work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/david-briggs\/aging-clergy-and-retirement_b_996659.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like their secular counterparts, many clergy who devoted their attention to less temporal matters than financial planning now find themselves amid shrinking church budgets and a poor economy being forced to work beyond traditional retirement ages. It is an especially<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28700\">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":[48,39,40,103,595,149,435,184,662,593,441,599,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pensions","category-personal-finance","category-stewardship","category-stock-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28700","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=28700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}