{"id":340,"date":"2016-07-21T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/?p=340"},"modified":"2016-07-21T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:23:51","slug":"the-state-of-american-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/21\/the-state-of-american-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of American Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a set of thoughtful articles from Christianity Today. While the magazine has a distinctly evangelical\/non-inclusive outlook overall, I thought these articles were interesting and written with a perspective that&#8217;s important to share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2016\/july\/state-of-american-church-part-1.html\">Part 1:  Facing a New Reality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2016\/july\/state-of-american-church-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2: Mainline and Evangelicals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2016\/july\/state-of-american-church-part-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Part 3: Vital Trends<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a set of thoughtful articles from Christianity Today. While the magazine has a distinctly evangelical\/non-inclusive outlook overall, I thought these articles were interesting and written with a perspective that&#8217;s important to share. Part 1: Facing a New Reality Part 2: Mainline and Evangelicals Part 3: Vital Trends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The State of American Churches","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstreflection.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}