{"id":26239,"date":"2023-06-14T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=26239"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:06:41","slug":"religion-professor-roger-sneed-comments-on-church-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/religion-professor-roger-sneed-comments-on-church-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion Professor Roger Sneed comments on church split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid descension over LGBTQ+ issues and marriage equality in the United Methodist Church, more than 100 South Carolina Methodist churches are splitting off. <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=6%2F9%2F2023+5%3A31%3A00+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">FOX Carolina<\/a> turned to Roger Sneed, chair and professor of religion at Furman University, for comment. &#8220;I <span id=\"-8\">think it&#8217;s a big deal,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think <\/span><span id=\"-7\">anytime denominations get into\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"-6\">debates about sexual orientation\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"-4\">and gender identity it&#8217;s always\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"-2\">a big deal.&#8221; It&#8217;s one that has been ongoing for 30 years, he said. &#8220;I <\/span><span id=\"7\">think if we did a plot of when\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"10\">churches break up or split,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"13\">there might be a kind of\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"15\">parallel shifting in society.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX Carolina turns to Roger Sneed, professor of religion, about the fractured United Methodist Church in South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,23],"tags":[2125,1478,395,2124],"class_list":["post-26239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-religion","tag-church-membership","tag-gender-identity","tag-lgbtq-issues","tag-marriage-equality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40809,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions\/40809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}