{"id":50146,"date":"2015-06-05T01:48:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T01:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_most_americans_look_so_kindly_on_churches_they_might_even_go_sometime\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T01:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T01:48:03","slug":"rns_most_americans_look_so_kindly_on_churches_they_might_even_go_sometime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50146","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Most Americans look so kindly on churches, they might even go sometime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans today don\u2019t think they have a place for church in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they believe the church has a place for them, when or if they are interested,\u201d\u009d said Scott McConnell, vice president of LifeWay Research, which issued a new survey Wednesday (June 3) on perceptions of religious denominations.<\/p>\n<p>The findings show that as many as 45 percent of Americans will look at the church brand on the sign out front \u201d\u201d Catholic or Baptist or Methodist or whatever \u201d\u201d and drive past, thinking it is \u201cnot for me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/06\/03\/americans-look-kindly-churches-might-even-go-sometime\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans today don\u2019t think they have a place for church in their lives. \u201cBut they believe the church has a place for them, when or if they are interested,\u201d\u009d said Scott McConnell, vice president of LifeWay Research, which issued<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50146\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50146","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50146","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=50146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}