{"id":53928,"date":"2016-03-30T01:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_cigarette_breaks_and_crochet_the_unlikely_revival_of_inner_city_c\/"},"modified":"2016-03-30T01:59:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:59:22","slug":"telegraph_cigarette_breaks_and_crochet_the_unlikely_revival_of_inner_city_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53928","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Cigarette breaks and crochet: the unlikely revival of inner city churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Cigarette breaks between hymns, candlelit services in pubs and parties serving halal food to welcome Muslim neighbours are among unlikely new ideas helping revive the fortunes of once run-down inner city churches, highlighted in a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The breach with traditional ecclesiastical style is singled out in the study into an at-times controversial plan by the Church of England to \u201cplant\u201d\u009d new congregations into historic parishes where numbers in the pews have dwindled for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The policy, backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other senior clerics, involves asking a group of often young, enthusiastic members of successful, growing congregations to move to another church as \u201cplanters\u201d\u009d to inject new energy and ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/12205261\/Cigarette-breaks-and-crochet-the-unlikely-revival-of-inner-city-churches.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cigarette breaks between hymns, candlelit services in pubs and parties serving halal food to welcome Muslim neighbours are among unlikely new ideas helping revive the fortunes of once run-down inner city churches, highlighted in a new report. The breach with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53928\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,172,199,440,437,435,184,108,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecclesiology","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53928","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=53928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}