{"id":74977,"date":"2020-01-21T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/184940879301"},"modified":"2020-01-21T11:46:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:46:55","slug":"religions-are-turning-to-technology-to-chase-youth-but-can-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=74977","title":{"rendered":"Religions are turning to technology to chase youth, but can they compete with Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/tumblr_prnehf6Uhm1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_prnehf6Uhm1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_prnehf6Uhm1sbj0vuo1_500-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Religions are turning to technology to chase youth, but can they compete with Facebook?<br \/>\nServices are streamed online, pastors are available to talk in real-time, and you can even submit a prayer request using your mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>Now the church is building an incubator to nurture young, talented digital natives who would otherwise look to established tech companies for work.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the only religious group growing its digital focus: faith-based tech is an area of interest across the religious spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>But, as other faith start-ups have found, competing with established social media companies comes with big challenges.<br \/>\nTo read the complete article please click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/is.gd\/m5WKNe\">https:\/\/is.gd\/m5WKNe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/bfb9ec2eeac355b0005e62940128016b\/tumblr_prnehf6Uhm1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Religions are turning to technology to chase youth, but can they compete with Facebook?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-74977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81869,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74977\/revisions\/81869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}