{"id":54610,"date":"2016-06-02T20:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_c_of_e_in_ageing_clergy_crisis_with_25_of_ministers_aged_over_60\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T20:28:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:28:31","slug":"guardian_c_of_e_in_ageing_clergy_crisis_with_25_of_ministers_aged_over_60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54610","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) C of E in ageing clergy crisis with 25% of ministers aged over 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is facing a growing crisis of ageing clergy, with a quarter of its ministers aged over 60.<\/p>\n<p>Although the number of people being ordained has increased in the past four years, new figures published by the church show that only 13% of its ministers are under the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the number of stipendiary ordinations showed a welcome increase between 2012 and 2015, this is not sufficient to redress the gathering effect of clergy retirements predicted over the next 10 years,\u201d\u009d said Julian Hubbard, the C of E\u2019s director of ministry. \u201cWith 25% of stipendiary clergy aged 60 or over, at present rates of ordination this trend will have a material and growing impact on the number of those available to serve in ordained roles across the dioceses.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jun\/02\/church-of-england-ageing-clergy-crisis\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is facing a growing crisis of ageing clergy, with a quarter of its ministers aged over 60. Although the number of people being ordained has increased in the past four years, new figures published by the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54610\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,435,184,108,167,441,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54610","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-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-stewardship","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54610","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=54610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}