{"id":46289,"date":"2014-10-09T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/linda_woodhead_the_church_of_england_is_on_its_last_chance\/"},"modified":"2014-10-09T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:00:52","slug":"linda_woodhead_the_church_of_england_is_on_its_last_chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46289","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Linda Woodhead: The Church of England is on its last chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is on its &#8220;last chance&#8221; and must make some hard decisions about clergy and parishes if it is to have a future, according to a leading academic.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Woodhead, professor in sociology of religion at Lancaster University, said: &#8220;What my and other people&#8217;s research shows is that people of my age are the last generation who in large numbers care about the Church of England.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prof Woodhead, aged 50, told Christian Today: &#8220;I am of the very last generation that has any interest in investing in the Church and to think about its future.&#8221; She doubted that the Church would die out completely, but warned it was in danger of shrinking into small enclaves dominated by the white middle classes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/linda.woodhead.the.church.of.england.is.on.its.last.chance\/41437.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is on its &#8220;last chance&#8221; and must make some hard decisions about clergy and parishes if it is to have a future, according to a leading academic. Linda Woodhead, professor in sociology of religion at Lancaster<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46289\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,199,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46289","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=46289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}