{"id":31092,"date":"2012-02-28T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/splinter_churches_realign_mainline_protestantism\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T22:22:58","slug":"splinter_churches_realign_mainline_protestantism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31092","title":{"rendered":"Splinter churches realign mainline Protestantism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question now is whether these breakaway groups signal a seismic shift in American Protestantism, or just a few fissures in the theological terrain.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, the rifts are nothing new. American Protestants have been splintering since Roger Williams left Plymouth Colony in the 1630s, said Nancy Ammerman, a sociologist of religion at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the schisms counter a 20th-century trend in which ethnic and regional Protestant groups merged to form big-tent denominations such as the ELCA and PC(USA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we may be experiencing at this point is the limit of that movement to draw a lot of diversity under one umbrella,&#8221; said Ammerman, author of &#8220;Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/culture\/social-issues\/splinter-churches-realign-mainline-protestantism\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question now is whether these breakaway groups signal a seismic shift in American Protestantism, or just a few fissures in the theological terrain. In some ways, the rifts are nothing new. American Protestants have been splintering since Roger Williams<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31092\">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":[36,42,63,66,363,154,417,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31092","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=31092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}