{"id":8425,"date":"2008-09-13T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jonathan_wynne_jones_has_the_church_become_too_feminine\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:27:11","slug":"jonathan_wynne_jones_has_the_church_become_too_feminine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8425","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Wynne-Jones: Has the Church become too feminine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of waiting to wear a mitre, they are putting on pointy hats instead &#8211; or dressing in garlands and flowing skirts at any rate.<\/p>\n<p>This, generally speaking, was how the newspapers sold the conclusions of a study by Dr Kristin Aune &#8211; a Derby sociologist &#8211; into churchgoing habits.<\/p>\n<p>It claimed that the Church faces a crisis in maintaining female worshippers who have become disillusioned because of its traditionalism and hierarchies.<\/p>\n<p>Wicca, on the other hand, offers them real empowerment apparently as they can aspire to the lofty position of High Priestess.<\/p>\n<p>They can even establish their own coven if they so wish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/jonathanwynnejones\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/has_the_church_become_too_feminine\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of waiting to wear a mitre, they are putting on pointy hats instead &#8211; or dressing in garlands and flowing skirts at any rate. This, generally speaking, was how the newspapers sold the conclusions of a study by Dr<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8425\">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":[39,50,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","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=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}