{"id":46297,"date":"2014-10-10T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_survey_finds_c_of_e_clergy_wedded_to_the_parish_system\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:00:28","slug":"church_times_survey_finds_c_of_e_clergy_wedded_to_the_parish_system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46297","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Survey finds C of E clergy wedded to the parish system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church of England clergy are overwhelmingly committed to the parish system, despite the challenges it poses, a new survey by YouGov suggests.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the clearest findings to come out of new research devised by the team behind last year&#8217;s Westminster Faith Debates.<\/p>\n<p>The survey asked 1500 Anglican clergy, chosen at random&#8230;how important the parish system was to them: 83 per cent said important, 12 per cent said not important, and five per cent held no strong view.<\/p>\n<p>The only other of the 29 questions asked that generated such unanimity, regardless of church tradition, concerned the nature of God: 83 per cent believed in a personal God; nine per cent answered: &#8220;No one can know what God is like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/10-october\/news\/uk\/survey-finds-c-of-e-clergy-wedded-to-the-parish-system\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church of England clergy are overwhelmingly committed to the parish system, despite the challenges it poses, a new survey by YouGov suggests. This is one of the clearest findings to come out of new research devised by the team behind<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46297\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297","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=46297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}