{"id":36995,"date":"2013-01-28T02:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/our_values_u-s-_churches_what_do_we_know_about_clergy\/"},"modified":"2013-01-28T02:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:00:43","slug":"our_values_u-s-_churches_what_do_we_know_about_clergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36995","title":{"rendered":"(Our Values) U.S. Churches: What do we know about clergy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARRIAGE: Pastors in conservative Protestant churches are much more likely to be in their first marriage\u201d\u201d85% of all conservative congregations. Fewer, but still a majority, of mainline Protestant pastors (62%) are also in their first marriage. Twenty percent of mainline Protestant pastors are divorced or separated, compared to 10% of Catholic priests.<\/p>\n<p>Marital status differs for men and women among ordained Protestant ministers: While 71% of all men are in their first marriage, 37% of women are in theirs. Women clergy are more likely to have never married (about 12%), compared to men (1%). About one in four women clergy are divorced or separated, compared with 3% of men.<\/p>\n<p>AGE: The median age of all pastors is 55. In 2001, the median age was 51&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthespirit.com\/ourvalues\/us-churches-what-do-we-know-about-clergy.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARRIAGE: Pastors in conservative Protestant churches are much more likely to be in their first marriage\u201d\u201d85% of all conservative congregations. Fewer, but still a majority, of mainline Protestant pastors (62%) are also in their first marriage. Twenty percent of mainline<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36995\">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":[48,39,50,209,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995","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=36995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}