{"id":49856,"date":"2015-05-17T21:31:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbc_keeping_faith_the_changing_face_of_religion_in_canada\/"},"modified":"2015-05-17T21:31:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T21:31:58","slug":"cbc_keeping_faith_the_changing_face_of_religion_in_canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49856","title":{"rendered":"(CBC) Keeping faith: The changing face of religion in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Lethbridge sociologist Reginald W. Bibby has spent several decades surveying Canadians about their attitudes on faith.<\/p>\n<p>He isn&#8217;t optimistic about a Protestant turnaround anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United Church, the Anglicans, the Presbyterians and the Lutherans were all being fed with these wonderful immigration pipelines for an awfully long time with people coming from Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s happened,&#8221; says Bibby, &#8220;is those pipelines have been shut down.  And the reality is unless those groups do some proselytizing, they are going to continue to decline rapidly as far as numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/keeping-faith-the-changing-face-of-religion-in-canada-1.3071353\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Lethbridge sociologist Reginald W. Bibby has spent several decades surveying Canadians about their attitudes on faith. He isn&#8217;t optimistic about a Protestant turnaround anytime soon. &#8220;The United Church, the Anglicans, the Presbyterians and the Lutherans were all being<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49856\">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":[39,50,42,207,155,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-canada","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49856","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=49856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}