{"id":56178,"date":"2016-10-31T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_24_7_webchat_for_the_spiritually_searching_church_of_scotland_looks_to_re\/"},"modified":"2016-10-31T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:30:11","slug":"a_24_7_webchat_for_the_spiritually_searching_church_of_scotland_looks_to_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56178","title":{"rendered":"A 24\/7 Webchat For the Spiritually Searching: Church Of Scotland Looks To Reverse Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland is to launch a webchat service to help those looking for spiritual guidance but unwilling to come to church on a Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative will go live in the new year and is the Kirk&#8217;s latest effort to reach beyond its traditional audience as figures show a continued trend away from organised religion.<\/p>\n<p>The digital congregation will be able to book an online chat with a minister but may have to wait up to three hours for a reply. A separate 24-hour chatline to discuss religious questions has also been set up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/24.7.webchat.for.spiritually.searching.church.of.scotland.looks.to.reverse.decline\/99360.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland is to launch a webchat service to help those looking for spiritual guidance but unwilling to come to church on a Sunday. The initiative will go live in the new year and is the Kirk&#8217;s latest<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56178\">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":[48,39,50,42,94,199,440,154,184,417,108,95,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-blogging-the-internet","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56178","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=56178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}