{"id":85633,"date":"2019-10-17T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85633"},"modified":"2019-10-17T07:44:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:44:52","slug":"christian-today-church-of-englands-digital-reach-grows-as-service-attendance-continues-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85633","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Church of England&#8217;s digital reach grows as service attendance continues to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record numbers of people are seeking Christian contemplation and reflection through the Church of England&#8217;s apps and social media platforms, but service attendance continues to struggle, new figures have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Apps that allow users to pray the ancient &#8216;Daily Office&#8217; of morning, evening and night prayer were used 4.2 million times on Apple devices alone in the last 12 months, up by 446,000 on the year before.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the apps, millions more are engaging with prayers, reflections and other posts from the Church of England through social media.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures in its 2019 digital report, the Church of England now has an average monthly reach on social media of 3.6 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/church-of-englands-digital-reach-grows-as-service-attendance-continues-to-fall\/133448.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Church of England&#8217;s digital reach grows as service attendance continues to fall <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IaZaJ68RVG\">https:\/\/t.co\/IaZaJ68RVG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christian Today (@ChristianToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianToday\/status\/1184781589651361792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record numbers of people are seeking Christian contemplation and reflection through the Church of England&#8217;s apps and social media platforms, but service attendance continues to struggle, new figures have revealed. Apps that allow users to pray the ancient &#8216;Daily Office&#8217;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85633\">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":[389,199,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85633","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=85633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85636,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85633\/revisions\/85636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}