{"id":40133,"date":"2013-09-18T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_as_denominations_such_as_the_episcopal_church_decline_numbers_of_unpaid\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:15:45","slug":"rns_as_denominations_such_as_the_episcopal_church_decline_numbers_of_unpaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40133","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) As denominations such as The Episcopal Church decline, numbers of unpaid ministers rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 50 members of All Saints Episcopal Church in Hitchcock, Texas, are looking forward to December, when Mark Marmon will be ordained their priest.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for the excitement? They won\u2019t have to pay him.<\/p>\n<p>A 57-year-old fly fishing guide, Marmon, whose wife is a lawyer, says he doesn\u2019t want or need a church salary. He belongs to a growing breed of mainline Protestant clergy who serve congregations in exchange for little or no compensation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the frontline,\u201d\u009d Marmon said. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for us, these churches would just roll up and die.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/09\/17\/denominations-decline-numbers-unpaid-ministers-rise\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50 members of All Saints Episcopal Church in Hitchcock, Texas, are looking forward to December, when Mark Marmon will be ordained their priest. One reason for the excitement? They won\u2019t have to pay him. A 57-year-old fly fishing guide,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40133\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,209,66,435,154,184,108,441,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133","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=40133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}