{"id":36472,"date":"2012-12-28T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jeff_walton_on_tec-ive_got_99_problems_but_a_priest_shortage_is_not_among_\/"},"modified":"2012-12-28T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:45:08","slug":"jeff_walton_on_tec-ive_got_99_problems_but_a_priest_shortage_is_not_among_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36472","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Walton on TEC&#8211;I\u2019ve Got 99 Problems but a Priest Shortage is not Among Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike steep declines in membership, finances, and number of parishes that have negatively impacted the life of the Episcopal Church, the denomination has seen a more gradual decline in priests, maintaining \u201d\u201c in some areas like Virginia and Texas \u201d\u201d more than enough to meet its needs. While rural congregations do struggle to attract or support full-time paid clergy, an overall ample supply of priests is surprising, given that a recent report on the state of the clergy in the Episcopal denomination identified a 26 percent drop in ordinations over the past six years&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The average age at ordination is now 44 (up from the early 30s in 1970) and the average age of active Episcopal clergy is 58.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2012\/12\/27\/episcopal-church-ive-got-99-problems-but-a-priest-shortage-aint-one\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike steep declines in membership, finances, and number of parishes that have negatively impacted the life of the Episcopal Church, the denomination has seen a more gradual decline in priests, maintaining \u201d\u201c in some areas like Virginia and Texas \u201d\u201d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36472\">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":[36,48,66,435,184,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36472","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=36472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}