{"id":47159,"date":"2014-12-02T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T05:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kuer_percentage_of_mormons_in_utahs_population_increases_slightly\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T05:30:44","slug":"kuer_percentage_of_mormons_in_utahs_population_increases_slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47159","title":{"rendered":"(KUER) Percentage of Mormons in Utah&#39;s Population Increases Slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of public records by the Salt Lake Tribune shows about 62-percent of Utah\u2019s overall population belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  Just over half the population of Salt Lake County is listed on church records.  There are three counties \u201d\u201c Grand, Summit and San Juan \u201d\u201c where Mormons are a minority.<\/p>\n<p>The LDS church doesn\u2019t provide information about how many of its members participate actively.  Reverend Lyn Zil Briggs is the vicar of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Centerville.  She says many of the people attending her services each week are Mormon.  And she says the large Mormon population in Utah makes newcomers more interested in religion generally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kuer.org\/post\/percentage-mormons-utahs-population-increases-slightly\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of public records by the Salt Lake Tribune shows about 62-percent of Utah\u2019s overall population belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Just over half the population of Salt Lake County is listed on church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47159\">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":[39,50,42,209,428,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47159","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=47159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}