{"id":34311,"date":"2012-08-30T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_survey_economy_continues_negative_effect_on_churches\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:00:27","slug":"rns_survey_economy_continues_negative_effect_on_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34311","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Survey: Economy continues negative effect on churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The economy continues to weigh on pastors, with a new survey showing that nearly two-thirds say it has affected their churches negatively.<\/p>\n<p>LifeWay Research asked 1,000 pastors about the economy\u2019s effect on their churches and found that 56 percent described it somewhat negatively and 8 percent very negatively. Nine percent reported a positive effect on their churches and one-quarter said the economy was having \u201cno impact on my church.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/ethics\/money-and-giving\/survey-economy-continues-negative-effect-on-churches\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy continues to weigh on pastors, with a new survey showing that nearly two-thirds say it has affected their churches negatively. LifeWay Research asked 1,000 pastors about the economy\u2019s effect on their churches and found that 56 percent described<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34311\">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":[48,39,40,50,209,149,435,184,108,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311","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=34311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}