{"id":40878,"date":"2013-11-04T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chris_yaw_connects_faith_communities_online\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:00:11","slug":"chris_yaw_connects_faith_communities_online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40878","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Chris Yaw connects faith communities online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, Chris Yaw noticed a trend among acquaintances in construction and engineering as well as members joining his church, St. David&#8217;s Episcopal in Southfield: They went online for education and career advancement.<\/p>\n<p>Society&#8217;s increasing reliance on computer-based interactions coupled with the changing habits of Metro Detroit churchgoers inspired Yaw to explore creating an educational platform that would connect communities.<\/p>\n<p>After developing the idea with a design team and partnering with Forward Movement, a Cincinnati-based publisher, the website he envisioned, www.churchnext.tv, debuted in August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandhaventribune.com\/article\/667971\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, Chris Yaw noticed a trend among acquaintances in construction and engineering as well as members joining his church, St. David&#8217;s Episcopal in Southfield: They went online for education and career advancement. Society&#8217;s increasing reliance on computer-based interactions<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40878\">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":[36,48,39,433,94,111,66,184,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-education","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40878","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=40878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}