{"id":26889,"date":"2009-08-14T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/14\/size-matters-when-it-comes-to\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T16:32:42","slug":"size-matters-when-it-comes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/14\/size-matters-when-it-comes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Size matters when it comes to church"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new study making its rounds in Christian media reports that people who attend churches with large congregations have more intense, more conservative, and more fundamentalist-literalist beliefs than Christians who attend small churches<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I fear this is a bit like the popularity of the grease pushing fast food places vs. the mom and pop diners, often sharing parking lots along America&#8217;s byways.  Or am I reading too little into this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teapotatheism.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/brand-name-christianity-works.html\">Teapot Atheist has deeper thoughts on this. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study making its rounds in Christian media reports that people who attend churches with large congregations have more intense, more conservative, and more fundamentalist-literalist beliefs than Christians who attend small churches I fear this is a bit like the popularity of the grease pushing fast food places vs. the mom and pop diners, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/14\/size-matters-when-it-comes-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Size matters when it comes to church<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6ZH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}