{"id":58438,"date":"2017-03-26T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58438"},"modified":"2017-03-26T18:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:34:28","slug":"disappearing-churches-downtown-charleston-south-carolina-congregations-cope-with-big-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58438","title":{"rendered":"Disappearing churches: Downtown Charleston, South Carolina, congregations cope with big changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater Macedonia Church building on Alexander Street in downtown Charlesston is for sale. So is the Mount Carmel AME Church building on Rutledge Avenue. The old Zion-Olivet Presbyterian Church at the end of Cannon Street sits empty.<\/p>\n<p>The congregation of Plymouth Congregational Church has relocated to the West Ashley area of Charleston. Shiloh AME Church is moving, too.<\/p>\n<p>The Charleston peninsula is losing churches, even as new residents stream into the three-county metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<p>Other religious institutions downtown are managing to hang on, even thrive, in this dynamic period of change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/features\/disappearing-churches-downtown-charleston-congregations-cope-with-big-changes\/article_713fd44c-0e69-11e7-a2d5-77427b707f93.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the local paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater Macedonia Church building on Alexander Street in downtown Charlesston is for sale. So is the Mount Carmel AME Church building on Rutledge Avenue. The old Zion-Olivet Presbyterian Church at the end of Cannon Street sits empty. The congregation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58438\">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":[54,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58438","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=58438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58441,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58438\/revisions\/58441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}