{"id":42354,"date":"2014-01-31T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eric_metaxas-is_faith_rising_in_the_east_and_setting_in_the_west_europe_an\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:39:59","slug":"eric_metaxas-is_faith_rising_in_the_east_and_setting_in_the_west_europe_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42354","title":{"rendered":"(BP) Eric Metaxas&#8211;Is Faith Rising in the East, and Setting in the West? Europe and Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I asked you to describe the state of Christianity in Europe, you\u2019d probably answer \u201cnot good.\u201d\u009d And there\u2019d be ample reason to do so. Most of us are familiar with the depressing statistics regarding church attendance in Western Europe and Scandinavia.<\/p>\n<p>But there is more to Europe than Britain, France, and Sweden. And in Central and Eastern Europe, a different story is being written.<\/p>\n<p>This story was the subject of a recent First Things article by Filip Mazurczak. In it, Mazurczak reveals to readers what is going on in former communist societies such as Hungary and Croatia. For instance, while the European Union notoriously omitted any mention of Europe\u2019s Christian heritage in the preamble to its constitution, Hungary\u2019s new constitution \u201cties Christianity to Hungarian nationhood.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakpoint.org\/bpcommentaries\/entry\/13\/24420\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I asked you to describe the state of Christianity in Europe, you\u2019d probably answer \u201cnot good.\u201d\u009d And there\u2019d be ample reason to do so. Most of us are familiar with the depressing statistics regarding church attendance in Western Europe<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42354\">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":[39,50,466,200,133,462,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-croatia","category-europe","category-history","category-hungary","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42354","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=42354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}