{"id":69434,"date":"2018-03-26T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69434"},"modified":"2018-03-26T07:29:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:29:17","slug":"christian-post-church-of-england-in-decline-whats-being-done-to-combat-shrinking-congregations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69434","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Post) Church of England in Decline: What&#8217;s Being Done to Combat Shrinking Congregations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empty churches. One-person congregations. Ministers &#8220;dressed up with no one to listen.&#8221; Is this the stark reality facing Church of England parishes?<\/p>\n<p>While to many, the future of the denomination looks bleak, there are major efforts at work aimed at bringing the faithful back to the church.<\/p>\n<p>One is a digital initiative that develops new ideas to enhance outreach and information. Another seeks to showcase the importance of the church community during momentous events in people&#8217;s lives, such as weddings and funerals, when they&#8217;re seeking answers to critical questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/church-of-england-in-decline-whats-being-done-to-combat-shrinking-congregations-221509\/page2.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empty churches. One-person congregations. Ministers &#8220;dressed up with no one to listen.&#8221; Is this the stark reality facing Church of England parishes? While to many, the future of the denomination looks bleak, there are major efforts at work aimed at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69434\">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":[389,440,184,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69434","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=69434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69435,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69434\/revisions\/69435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}