{"id":50255,"date":"2015-06-12T01:18:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T01:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/empty_pews_not_the_end_of_the_world_says_c_of_es_newest_bishop\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T01:18:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T01:18:06","slug":"empty_pews_not_the_end_of_the_world_says_c_of_es_newest_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50255","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Empty pews not the end of the world, says C of E\u2019s newest bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declining numbers at services should not necessarily be a cause of despair for churches because people will still \u201cencounter God\u201d\u009d without ever taking their place in a pew, the Church of England\u2019s newest bishop designate has insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Sarah Mullally, the former NHS Chief Nurse for England who has been named as the next Bishop of Crediton, said clerics must recognise that young people are as likely to hear the Christian message through social media sites such as Facebook or in caf\u00c3\u00a9s as in a church.<\/p>\n<p>In a remarkably varied career, the 53-year-old mother-of-two has now risen to the top of two very different professions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/11663692\/Empty-pews-not-the-end-of-the-world-says-Church-of-Englands-newest-bishop.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declining numbers at services should not necessarily be a cause of despair for churches because people will still \u201cencounter God\u201d\u009d without ever taking their place in a pew, the Church of England\u2019s newest bishop designate has insisted. Dame Sarah Mullally,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50255\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,635,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50255","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=50255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}