{"id":29014,"date":"2011-10-28T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopalians_now_below_2_million\/"},"modified":"2011-10-28T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T21:42:13","slug":"episcopalians_now_below_2_million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29014","title":{"rendered":"(Courier-Journal) Peter-Smith: Episcopalians now below 2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church has marked a grim milestone when it reported membership has dipped below 2 million within the United States for the first time in decades.<\/p>\n<p>It had 1,951,907 stateside members in 2010, down 3 percent from the previous year, according to its research office.<\/p>\n<p>Membership has been steadily declining since the 1960s, when it and several other historic Protestant denominations were at the peak of their membership and cultural influence. There have been long-running debates over the causes of the declines. Theories include liberal trends in theology and\/or sexuality, the wearisome fighting over those issues and the declining birth rates of the denominations\u2019 largely white, better-educated membership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courier-journal.com\/faith\/2011\/10\/27\/episcopalians-now-below-2-million\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/episcopalian-church-membership-dips-below-2-million-59615\">more on this there<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church has marked a grim milestone when it reported membership has dipped below 2 million within the United States for the first time in decades. It had 1,951,907 stateside members in 2010, down 3 percent from the previous<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29014\">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":[36,66,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014","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=29014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}