{"id":40869,"date":"2013-11-03T16:54:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T16:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/to_stave_off_decline_churches_attract_new_members_with_beer\/"},"modified":"2013-11-03T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T16:54:47","slug":"to_stave_off_decline_churches_attract_new_members_with_beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40869","title":{"rendered":"To Stave Off Decline, Churches Attract New Members With Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With mainline religious congregations dwindling across America, a scattering of churches is trying to attract new members by creating a different sort of Christian community. They are gathering around craft beer.<\/p>\n<p>Some church groups are brewing it themselves, while others are bring the Holy Mysteries to a taproom. The result is not sloshed congregants; rather, it&#8217;s an exploratory approach to do church differently.<\/p>\n<p>Leah Stanfield stands at a microphone across the room from the beer taps and reads this evening&#8217;s gospel message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2013\/11\/03\/242301642\/to-stave-off-decline-churches-attract-new-members-with-beer\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With mainline religious congregations dwindling across America, a scattering of churches is trying to attract new members by creating a different sort of Christian community. They are gathering around craft beer. Some church groups are brewing it themselves, while others<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40869\">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":[48,39,42,90,440,363,154,184,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-alcoholdrinking","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869","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=40869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}