{"id":50138,"date":"2015-06-04T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/barna_what_are_the_least_churched_cities_in_the_u-s\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:00:17","slug":"barna_what_are_the_least_churched_cities_in_the_u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50138","title":{"rendered":"(Barna) What Are the Least Churched Cities in the U.S.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has a reputation for being exceptionally religious\u201d\u201dand it is true that, historically speaking, churchgoing has played an outsized role in American identity. Still, millions of Americans have little to no connection to local congregations.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, about four in 10 U.S. adults qualify as \u201cunchurched\u201d\u009d under Barna\u2019s definition (38%). Unchurched adults have not attended a church service, except for a holiday or special occasion, at any time within the past six months.<\/p>\n<p>Churched and unchurched adults are not evenly distributed across the country. Church attendance varies widely from city to city and region to region. Many cities outpace the overall U.S. population when it comes to church avoidance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cities.barna.org\/barna-cities-the-top-churchless-metro-areas\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has a reputation for being exceptionally religious\u201d\u201dand it is true that, historically speaking, churchgoing has played an outsized role in American identity. Still, millions of Americans have little to no connection to local congregations. Currently, about four in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50138\">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":[39,50,209,108,109,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-sociology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50138","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=50138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}