{"id":1153,"date":"2021-05-17T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:25:45","slug":"could-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"could do better!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>How proud of us is our heavenly Father?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>The other day, while contemplating the Universe, I noticed a tweet from someone calling themselves, Deconverted Calvinist, with the plea, \u2018I\u2019m preparing a presentation on the phenomenon of the exodus of evangelicals \u2026 can you help?\u2019 At that time there were about 300 respondents, giving reasons why they were no longer \u2018evangelicals\u2019, either migrating to more liberal expressions or leaving the faith entirely. I analysed this response and have ended up with the top five reasons \u2026<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How proud of us is our heavenly Father? The other day, while contemplating the Universe, I noticed a tweet from someone calling themselves, Deconverted Calvinist, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}