{"id":54171,"date":"2016-04-24T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_why_these_americans_are_done_with_church_but_not_with_god\/"},"modified":"2016-04-24T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T21:04:38","slug":"csm_why_these_americans_are_done_with_church_but_not_with_god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54171","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Why these Americans are &#39;done&#39; with church, but not with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those grappling with these issues, religious institutions have a rigidity that just isn\u2019t jibing with the increasing diversity of America. And so they\u2019re leaving the institutions, although they still want to be on a spiritual journey with others.<\/p>\n<p>These people see faith not as being about rituals and doctrine, but as about individuals coming together and enjoying an honest exchange of views.<\/p>\n<p>As tens of millions leave the \u201cSunday morning experience,\u201d\u009d \u201cmany of them are getting together and finding other ways to do life and community together, and they are not so hung up on, do you believe what I believe?\u201d\u009d says Josh Packard, a sociologist of religion at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2015\/1219\/Why-these-Americans-are-done-with-church-but-not-with-God\">Read it all<\/a>. (another from the long line of should have already been posted material).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those grappling with these issues, religious institutions have a rigidity that just isn\u2019t jibing with the increasing diversity of America. And so they\u2019re leaving the institutions, although they still want to be on a spiritual journey with others. These<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54171\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54171","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=54171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}