{"id":40445,"date":"2013-10-08T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_churches_take_a_stand_on_pews_replacing_them_with_chairs\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:00:31","slug":"wsj_churches_take_a_stand_on_pews_replacing_them_with_chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40445","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Churches Take a Stand on Pews, Replacing Them With Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I walked in Wednesday night for a prayer meeting and the chairs were there, and they were beautiful,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I thought, &#8216;Nancy Shane, even at 68 years old, young woman, you can change.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She isn&#8217;t the only churchgoer being asked to take a stand on new Sunday seating arrangements. Pews have been part of the Western world&#8217;s religious landscape for centuries, but now a growing number of churches in the U.S. and U.K. are opting for chairs, sometimes chairs equipped with kneelers.<\/p>\n<p>At bottom: churches want to trim remodeling costs, maximize space flexibility with stackable seating, or create a more approachable atmosphere to draw in unchurched young people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303918804579107171202971150\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I walked in Wednesday night for a prayer meeting and the chairs were there, and they were beautiful,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I thought, &#8216;Nancy Shane, even at 68 years old, young woman, you can change.&#8217; &#8221; She isn&#8217;t the only churchgoer<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40445\">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":[48,39,440,183,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445","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=40445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}