{"id":1670,"date":"2010-07-15T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2010-07-15T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:20:58","slug":"is-mainline-becoming-mainline-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/15\/is-mainline-becoming-mainline-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8216;Mainline&#8217; becoming Mainline again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Total membership in the seven largest mainline Protestant denominations \u2014 United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian Church (USA), Disciples of Christ, United Church of Christ and American Baptist Churches \u2014 fell a total of 7.4% from 1995 to 2004, based on tallies reported to the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the total membership count for Roman Catholics, the ultra-conservative Southern Baptist Convention, Pentecostal Assemblies of God and proselytizing Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) reported to the Yearbook is up nearly 11.4% for the same period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2006-10-31-protestant-cover_x.htm\">Some Protestant churches feeling &#8216;mainline&#8217; again &#8211; USATODAY.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An article about St. Mark Evangelical Lutheran Church in Yorktown, that is for sure a mainline denomination but is still growing. It does not use PowerPoint or a Praise band, but offers food twice a week for those gathered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total membership in the seven largest mainline Protestant denominations \u2014 United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian Church (USA), Disciples of Christ, United Church of Christ and American Baptist Churches \u2014 fell a total of 7.4% from 1995 to 2004, based on tallies reported to the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Meanwhile, the total membership &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/15\/is-mainline-becoming-mainline-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is &#8216;Mainline&#8217; becoming Mainline again?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,34,41,50,76,100,165],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-clergy","tag-community","tag-creeds","tag-eat","tag-growth","tag-liturgy","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}