{"id":33313,"date":"2024-12-03T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33313"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:01:32","slug":"i-am-not-sure-traditional-is-the-word-youre-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/03\/i-am-not-sure-traditional-is-the-word-youre-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not Sure &#8220;Traditional&#8221; Is The Word You&#8217;re Looking For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/03\/us-news\/young-men-are-converting-to-orthodox-christianity-in-droves\/\" target=\"_new\">Young men leaving traditional churches for \u2018masculine\u2019 Orthodox Christianity in droves<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As more and more Protestant churches unfurl Pride flags and Black Lives Matter banners in front of their gates, young men are trending toward more traditional forms of worship. <\/p>\n<p>A survey of Orthodox churches around the country found that parishes saw a 78% increase in converts in 2022, compared with pre-pandemic levels in 2019. And while historically men and women converted in equal numbers, vastly more men have joined the church since 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pop Protestantism, perhaps.  But such are not &#8216;traditional&#8217; in any sense of the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young men leaving traditional churches for \u2018masculine\u2019 Orthodox Christianity in droves: As more and more Protestant churches unfurl Pride flags and Black Lives Matter banners in front of their gates, young men are trending toward more traditional forms of worship. A survey of Orthodox churches around the country found that parishes saw a 78% increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33314,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313\/revisions\/33314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}