{"id":68886,"date":"2018-03-07T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68886"},"modified":"2018-03-07T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:00:51","slug":"barna-the-enduring-influence-of-billy-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68886","title":{"rendered":"(Barna) The Enduring Influence of Billy Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, Barna asked American adults who they consider to be the single most influential Christian leader in the U.S. today:<\/p>\n<p>19 percent of American adults chose Billy Graham.<br \/>\nThis is particularly striking considering only 9 percent chose the Pope. The survey also included figures such as Barack Obama (8%) and Joel Osteen (5%).<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Barna asked American adults how familiar they are with Billy Graham:<\/p>\n<p>34 percent of American adults said they were \u201cvery familiar\u201d with Billy Graham.<br \/>\nOther religious leaders in the survey included Pope Francis (28% very familiar), the Dalai Lama (21%) and Andy Stanley (4%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/research\/enduring-influence-billy-graham\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, Barna asked American adults who they consider to be the single most influential Christian leader in the U.S. today: 19 percent of American adults chose Billy Graham. This is particularly striking considering only 9 percent chose the Pope.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68886\">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":[209,419,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelicals","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68886","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=68886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68887,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68886\/revisions\/68887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}