{"id":46684,"date":"2014-11-03T03:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T03:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_studies_show_many_americans_not_reading_the_bible_lack_basic_kn\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T03:30:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T03:30:38","slug":"local_paper_studies_show_many_americans_not_reading_the_bible_lack_basic_kn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46684","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Studies show many Americans not reading the Bible, lack basic knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Rev. Spike Coleman wasn&#8217;t sure how to respond when a member of his St. Andrew&#8217;s Presbyterian decided to leave the West Ashley church &#8211; because Coleman preached too much about the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>The man wanted something a bit more Joel Olsteen, more practical and uplifting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he goes to church, he wants to leave feeling good,&#8221; Coleman said. &#8220;You can leave feeling good and somehow affirmed. But is that going to sustain you in the dark nights of the soul?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20141101\/PC1204\/141109965\/1177\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Spike Coleman wasn&#8217;t sure how to respond when a member of his St. Andrew&#8217;s Presbyterian decided to leave the West Ashley church &#8211; because Coleman preached too much about the Bible. The man wanted something a bit more<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46684\">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":[48,39,54,434,92,437,435,184,108,34,169,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-adult-education","category-books","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture","category-youth-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46684","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=46684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}