{"id":873,"date":"2002-12-03T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2002-12-03T20:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/03\/the-church-changes-the-world\/"},"modified":"2002-12-03T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2002-12-03T20:39:18","slug":"the-church-changes-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/03\/the-church-changes-the-world","title":{"rendered":"The Church Changes The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The church too often gets a neg\u00ada\u00adtive rep on the col\u00adlege cam\u00adpus. Con\u00adsid\u00ader this: <i>\u201cWould any\u00adone notice if our church closed down tomor\u00adrow?\u201d a preach\u00ader asked his con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtion. Har\u00advard Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty researcher Robert D. Put\u00adnam says yes, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and oth\u00ader reli\u00adgions do make a dif\u00adfer\u00adence in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan soci\u00adety.<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/le\/2002\/004\/23.9.html\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Some high\u00adlights:<br>\n* <i>half of all per\u00adson\u00adal phil\u00adan\u00adthropy is reli\u00adgious in char\u00adac\u00adter, and half of all vol\u00adun\u00adteer\u00ading occurs in a reli\u00adgious con\u00adtext.<\/i><br>\n* <i>Church\u00adgo\u00aders are sub\u00adstan\u00adtial\u00adly more like\u00adly to be involved in sec\u00adu\u00adlar orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions and to have deep\u00ader infor\u00admal social con\u00adnec\u00adtions.<\/i><br>\n* <i>In one sur\u00advey it was mem\u00adber\u00adship in reli\u00adgious groups that was most close\u00adly asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with oth\u00ader forms of civic involve\u00adment, like vot\u00ading, jury ser\u00advice, com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty projects, talk\u00ading with neigh\u00adbors, and giv\u00ading to char\u00adi\u00adty.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Food for thought\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church too often gets a neg\u00ada\u00adtive rep on the col\u00adlege cam\u00adpus. Con\u00adsid\u00ader this: \u201cWould any\u00adone notice if our church closed down tomor\u00adrow?\u201d a preach\u00ader asked his con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtion. Har\u00advard Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty researcher Robert D. Put\u00adnam says yes, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and oth\u00ader reli\u00adgions do make a dif\u00adfer\u00adence in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan soci\u00adety. (source) Some high\u00adlights: * half of all per\u00adson\u00adal \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/03\/the-church-changes-the-world\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThe Church Changes The World\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-e5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}