{"id":31565,"date":"2012-03-26T00:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_church_giving_dropped_1-2_billion_in_2010_recession\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T00:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:16:43","slug":"rns_church_giving_dropped_1-2_billion_in_2010_recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31565","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Church Giving Dropped $1.2 Billion in 2010 Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as membership remains relatively stable in U.S. churches, the effects of the recession have caused contributions to drop by $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2012 Yearbook of American &#038; Canadian Churches, the almost $29 billion contributed by church members represented a 2.2 percent decrease in terms of per capita giving.<\/p>\n<p>The $1.2 billion decline in 2010 was nearly three times as large as the $431 million in losses reported in 2009, and &#8220;provides clear evidence of the impact of the deepening crises in the reporting period,&#8221; the Yearbook&#8217;s editor, the Rev. Eileen Lindner, wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctliveblog\/archives\/2012\/03\/report_church_g.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as membership remains relatively stable in U.S. churches, the effects of the recession have caused contributions to drop by $1.2 billion. According to the 2012 Yearbook of American &#038; Canadian Churches, the almost $29 billion contributed by church members<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31565\">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":[48,39,40,149,184,593,108,441,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-parish-ministry","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565","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=31565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}