{"id":29445,"date":"2011-11-21T17:20:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/barna_group_u-s-_lacks_notable_christian_leaders\/"},"modified":"2011-11-21T17:20:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:20:27","slug":"barna_group_u-s-_lacks_notable_christian_leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29445","title":{"rendered":"(Barna Group) U.S. Lacks Notable Christian Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Barna Group study illustrates that no single Christian leader captures the attention of the nation\u2019s population. When asked to identify the single most influential Christian leader in the U.S. today, two out of every five Americans (41%) are unable to think of anyone who would meet that description.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Graham is the name mentioned most often in response to the unaided survey question (a measure often described as \u201ctop-of-mind\u201d\u009d awareness). One out of five Americans names the octogenarian evangelist, with 19% of adult residents identifying Mr. Graham as the nation\u2019s most influential Christian leader.<\/p>\n<p>Half as many adults (9%) believe \u201cthe Pope\u201d\u009d or Pope Benedict to be the most significant Christian leader in the nation. Nearly the same proportion (8%) considers President Barack Obama to hold this prominent role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barna.org\/culture-articles\/536-us-lacks-notable-christian-leaders\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Barna Group study illustrates that no single Christian leader captures the attention of the nation\u2019s population. When asked to identify the single most influential Christian leader in the U.S. today, two out of every five Americans (41%) are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29445\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,419,435,154,184,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29445","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-evangelicals","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29445","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=29445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}