{"id":38207,"date":"2013-05-08T18:08:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cranmer_blog_analysis-cofe_annual_statistics_2011_-_good_news_and_bad\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T18:08:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:08:36","slug":"cranmer_blog_analysis-cofe_annual_statistics_2011_-_good_news_and_bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38207","title":{"rendered":"Cranmer Blog Analysis&#8211;CofE annual statistics 2011 &#8211; good news and bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Christmas Christians are on the up.<\/p>\n<p>And the number of christenings increased by 4.3%, which was accompanied by a rise of just over 5% in adult baptisms with a combined total of 139,751 baptisms \u201d\u201c meaning that the Church of England conducted an average of over 2,600 baptisms each week during 2011. Thanksgivings for the birth of a child also rose &#8211; an 11.9% increase, taking numbers to 6,582&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news?<\/p>\n<p>Sunday attendance has declined over the decade, and this is particularly noticeable with child attendance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/05\/cofe-annual-statistics-2011-good-news.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Christmas Christians are on the up. And the number of christenings increased by 4.3%, which was accompanied by a rise of just over 5% in adult baptisms with a combined total of 139,751 baptisms \u201d\u201c meaning that the Church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38207\">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":[36,48,39,50,71,74,389,199,183,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207","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=38207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}