{"id":29140,"date":"2011-11-05T01:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T01:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbn_anglicans_fear_uk_church_faces_extinction\/"},"modified":"2011-11-05T01:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T01:55:01","slug":"cbn_anglicans_fear_uk_church_faces_extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29140","title":{"rendered":"(CBN) Anglicans Fear UK Church Faces Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At St. Swithuns Church in Retford, services have dropped to a maximum of 20 people, most of them retired.<\/p>\n<p>St. Swithuns Team Rector Rev. Tony Walker said the biggest challenge is that people no longer feel a commitment to be a regular part of the church community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are plenty of people who still see St. Swithuns as their church, but it&#8217;s their church that they don&#8217;t come to very often,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But they want it there for weddings and funerals and baptisms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2011\/November\/Anglicans-Fear-UK-Church-Faces-Extinction\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At St. Swithuns Church in Retford, services have dropped to a maximum of 20 people, most of them retired. St. Swithuns Team Rector Rev. Tony Walker said the biggest challenge is that people no longer feel a commitment to be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29140\">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-29140","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\/29140","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=29140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}