{"id":7399,"date":"2018-06-20T04:01:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2018-06-20T04:01:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:01:32","slug":"southern-baptists-call-off-the-culture-war-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/20\/southern-baptists-call-off-the-culture-war-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Baptists Call Off the Culture War &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By elevating women and distancing themselves from partisan engagement, the members of the SBC appear to be signaling their determination to head in a different direction, out of a mix of pragmatism and principle. For more than a decade, the denomination has been experiencing precipitous decline by almost every metric. Baptisms are at a 70-year low, and Sunday attendance is at a 20-year low. Southern Baptist churches lost almost 80,000 members from 2016 to 2017 and they have hemorrhaged a whopping one milli<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/06\/southern-baptists-call-off-the-culture-war\/563000\/\">Southern Baptists Call Off the Culture War &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By elevating women and distancing themselves from partisan engagement, the members of the SBC appear to be signaling their determination to head in a different direction, out of a mix of pragmatism and principle. For more than a decade, the denomination has been experiencing precipitous decline by almost every metric. Baptisms are at a 70-year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/20\/southern-baptists-call-off-the-culture-war-the-atlantic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Southern Baptists Call Off the Culture War &#8211; The Atlantic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}