{"id":40765,"date":"2013-10-28T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_report_church_giving_reaches_depression-era_record_lows\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T00:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:00:42","slug":"rns_report_church_giving_reaches_depression-era_record_lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40765","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Report: Church giving reaches Depression-era record lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collection plates are growing even lighter as Protestant church member giving reached new lows in 2011, and tithing probably will not recover from the recession, according to a new report by Empty Tomb, a Christian research group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the issue that the church is not providing an authentic alternative to the consumer mindset?\u201d\u009d said Sylvia Ronsvalle, executive vice president of Empty Tomb. \u201cOver a period of time, if the church isn\u2019t providing more of an authentic alternative, the church will lose.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of a church member\u2019s income given to the church dropped to 2.3 percent in 2011 (the latest year for which numbers are available), down from 2.4 percent in 2010, according to the Empty Tomb study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/10\/24\/report-church-giving-reaches-depression-era-record-lows\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collection plates are growing even lighter as Protestant church member giving reached new lows in 2011, and tithing probably will not recover from the recession, according to a new report by Empty Tomb, a Christian research group. \u201cIs the issue<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40765\">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":[48,39,40,149,168,184,593,108,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40765","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=40765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}