{"id":982,"date":"2011-09-16T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2011-09-16T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:44:04","slug":"does-the-future-have-a-church-the-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/does-the-future-have-a-church-the-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the future have a church? | The Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The briefing has an article on the British Protestant scene. It is interesting. the first thing that strikes me is the number of churches in the UK: 48.000, and the number of ministers: 36.000. For a reminder, there are about 2068 evangelical churches (not sure about the number of liberal protestant churches though) for about the same population. Also, the number of people who are members of a church is 5.5 millions in the UK as compared to 600.000 protestants in France (of which 46000 are evangelicals, less than 0.5% of the population). In the UK, 6% of the population attends a church service on Sundays (Thats 3.5 million people). Paul Levy says (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/the-uk-scene.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) it&#8217;s a pretty dire situation (which I agree with when you consider the rich christian history of the UK). But from a French perspective, the UK is a kind of evangelical heaven. No wonder many young French Christians who go to study in the UK don&#8217;t want to come back. Read the Briefing article:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthiasmedia.com\/briefing\/2011\/08\/does-the-future-have-a-church\/\">Does the future have a church? | The Briefing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The briefing has an article on the British Protestant scene. It is interesting. the first thing that strikes me is the number of churches in the UK: 48.000, and the number of ministers: 36.000. For a reminder, there are about 2068 evangelical churches (not sure about the number of liberal protestant churches though) for about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/does-the-future-have-a-church-the-briefing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does the future have a church? | The Briefing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}