{"id":42963,"date":"2014-03-08T20:19:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_martin_luthers_church_the_pastor_asks_where_have_all_the_protestants_gon\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T20:19:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:19:43","slug":"in_martin_luthers_church_the_pastor_asks_where_have_all_the_protestants_gon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42963","title":{"rendered":"In Martin Luther\u2019s Church the Pastor Asks: Where Have All the Protestants Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Johannes Block can consider himself Martin Luther&#8217;s successor. He&#8217;s the vicar of Stadtkirche St. Marien zu Wittenberg, Luther&#8217;s own church. The church is the St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica of Protestantism.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Luther preached his incendiary sermons against Vatican corruption that led to the Reformation and the rise of the Protestant movement. It is where Protestant pastors were first ordained.<\/p>\n<p>But on a typical Sunday, Block looks out over a mere 50 to 100 people in the pews: a tiny number in a city of 135,000, especially one whose official name is Lutherstadt (Luther City) Wittenberg. Indeed, nowhere in Germany is the share of Protestants lower than right here in Luther&#8217;s homeland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mag.newsweek.com\/2014\/02\/28\/lutheran-religion-protestant-martin-luther.html\">Read it all<\/a> from Newsweek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Johannes Block can consider himself Martin Luther&#8217;s successor. He&#8217;s the vicar of Stadtkirche St. Marien zu Wittenberg, Luther&#8217;s own church. The church is the St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica of Protestantism. Here, Luther preached his incendiary sermons against Vatican corruption that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42963\">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":[42,363,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42963","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=42963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}