{"id":40860,"date":"2013-11-05T16:04:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_post_episcopal_church_continues_downward_trend_according_to_repor\/"},"modified":"2013-11-05T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:04:53","slug":"christian_post_episcopal_church_continues_downward_trend_according_to_repor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40860","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Post) Episcopal Church Continues Downward Trend According to Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Bumped from Saturday]<br \/>Jeff Walton, Anglican program director at the Institute on Religion &#038; Democracy, told The Christian Post that these losses may even be larger than what is recorded.<\/p>\n<p>According to Walton, TEC&#8217;s numbers are not factoring in the losses it technically sustained when the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina voted to leave the denomination last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reported nearly 29,000 member drop does not include an estimated 22,000 that departed with the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina in November of 2012. So the real decline is about 51,000 persons,&#8221; said Walton. &#8220;The Episcopal Church is continuing a gradual, predictable decline in both members and attendance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/episcopal-church-continues-downward-trend-according-to-report-107906\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Bumped from Saturday]Jeff Walton, Anglican program director at the Institute on Religion &#038; Democracy, told The Christian Post that these losses may even be larger than what is recorded. According to Walton, TEC&#8217;s numbers are not factoring in the losses<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40860\">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":[36,66,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860","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=40860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}