{"id":49600,"date":"2015-04-29T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faithstreet_are_millennials_really_leaving_the_church_yes-but_mostly_white\/"},"modified":"2018-07-08T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T19:19:24","slug":"faithstreet_are_millennials_really_leaving_the_church_yes-but_mostly_white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49600","title":{"rendered":"(On Faith) Are Millennials Really Leaving the Church? Yes&#8211;but Mostly White Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyday, it seems, there\u2019s a new story about how \u201cMillennials are leaving the church.\u201d\u009d But there\u2019s a problem with these trend pieces: They aren\u2019t true. American Christianity still has plenty of Millennials \u201d\u201d they\u2019re just not necessarily in white churches.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they\u2019re found in places like Iglesia de Dios, a 3,000-member Hispanic megachurch in Nashville. The church was started in the mid-1990s by the Rev. Jose Rodriguez, a native of Venezuala who moved to Nashville in order to get better medical care for one of his children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithstreet.com\/onfaith\/2014\/05\/16\/are-millennials-really-leaving-church-yes-but-mostly-white-millennials\/32103\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyday, it seems, there\u2019s a new story about how \u201cMillennials are leaving the church.\u201d\u009d But there\u2019s a problem with these trend pieces: They aren\u2019t true. American Christianity still has plenty of Millennials \u201d\u201d they\u2019re just not necessarily in white<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49600\">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":[48,39,50,209,184,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49600","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=49600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72693,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49600\/revisions\/72693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}