{"id":44458,"date":"2014-06-06T02:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T02:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ethnic_churches_do_better_with_millennials_but_challenges_remain\/"},"modified":"2014-06-06T02:01:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T02:01:48","slug":"ethnic_churches_do_better_with_millennials_but_challenges_remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44458","title":{"rendered":"(ABP) Ethnic churches do better with Millennials, but challenges remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go to Google and type \u201cMillennials, church,\u201d\u009d and the screen will be dominated by links to articles, blogs and studies documenting that generation\u2019s exodus from American congregations.<\/p>\n<p>What irks some, however, is that evidence is being overlooked that the problem is not one that plagues the \u201d\u02dccapital-C church.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A growing group of African-American, Hispanic and other ethnic ministers are pushing back. And they are armed with yet more articles, blogs and studies \u201d\u201d this time revealing that the departure of young adults from churches is a largely white-church problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abpnews.com\/ministry\/congregations\/item\/28776-ethnic-churches-fare-better-with-millennials-but-challenges-remain\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to Google and type \u201cMillennials, church,\u201d\u009d and the screen will be dominated by links to articles, blogs and studies documenting that generation\u2019s exodus from American congregations. What irks some, however, is that evidence is being overlooked that the problem<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44458\">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":[48,39,42,175,168,154,184,177,108,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44458","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=44458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}