{"id":1419,"date":"2011-12-18T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T07:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2012-08-16T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:18:51","slug":"top-ten-best-things-about-liberal-religion-in-2011-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/12\/top-ten-best-things-about-liberal-religion-in-2011-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Top ten best things about liberal religion in 2011, pt. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>8.<\/strong> You know how people keep saying that young adults don&#8217;t want to go to church any more? You know those surveys that say young adults are drifting away from religion? Maybe that&#8217;s true considered across the vast mass of population of the United States, but I&#8217;m seeing something else going on. In spite of what the Baby Boomers are saying, I&#8217;m seeing twenty-somethings coming to our Unitarian Universalist church and liking it.<\/p>\n<p>However, the twenty-somethings are doing church a little differently than the Baby Boomers and older generations. They don&#8217;t necessarily come every single week (though quite a few do). They like to use social media to relate to church, and to each other. Since many of them grew up without much or any religion, they don&#8217;t all have the same desperate angst about religion that many older Unitarian Universalists do. They seem a lot more relaxed about religion than older folks.<\/p>\n<p>I admit I&#8217;m biased: I really like the current twenty-something generation. Taken as a whole, they&#8217;re pleasant, quite interested in exploring religion and spirituality, and very committed to social justice work. I hope they come into our churches and droves and take over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8. You know how people keep saying that young adults don&#8217;t want to go to church any more? You know those surveys that say young adults are drifting away from religion? Maybe that&#8217;s true considered across the vast mass of population of the United States, but I&#8217;m seeing something else going on. In spite of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/12\/top-ten-best-things-about-liberal-religion-in-2011-pt-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top ten best things about liberal religion in 2011, pt. 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[225,143],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-institutions","tag-baby-boomers","tag-top-ten-in-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}