{"id":10145,"date":"2008-12-14T01:21:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T01:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/binghamton_ny_sun_bulletin_state_judge_reserves_decision_on_local_church\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T01:21:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T01:21:53","slug":"binghamton_ny_sun_bulletin_state_judge_reserves_decision_on_local_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10145","title":{"rendered":"(Binghamton N.Y.) Sun Bulletin: State judge reserves decision on local church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pastor and parishioners at Church of the Good Shepherd will go to worship Sunday not knowing whether the congregation can stay in its Conklin Avenue building.<\/p>\n<p>A state Supreme Court judge decided Friday to reserve a decision in the legal dispute between the local church and a regional diocese over who owns the property in the wake of Good Shepherd&#8217;s withdrawal from the Episcopal denomination.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the congregation will focus on Christmas, according to the Rev. Matthew Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this is our last Christmas, at least we&#8217;ll celebrate it together,&#8221; Kennedy said he will tell parishioners at worship Sunday. &#8220;Every year, every day, we walk according to God&#8217;s grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/article\/20081213\/NEWS01\/812130335\/1001\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pastor and parishioners at Church of the Good Shepherd will go to worship Sunday not knowing whether the congregation can stay in its Conklin Avenue building. A state Supreme Court judge decided Friday to reserve a decision in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10145\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,66,114,376,643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-central-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}