{"id":10216,"date":"2008-12-17T20:33:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/richard_mouw_the_episcopal_church_needs_evangelicals\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:33:49","slug":"richard_mouw_the_episcopal_church_needs_evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10216","title":{"rendered":"Richard Mouw: The Episcopal Church Needs Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a complicated issue for many of us who worry about the theological direction of the Episcopal Church in the USA (ECUSA). For one thing, I hate to see conservatives leave over women&#8217;s ordination. What that means, among other things, is that they are abandoning many dedicated women clergy who are themselves conservative on the other two issues: biblical authority and homosexuality. But we do have to be clear that it is not enough to say that the departing conservatives are simply setting up &#8220;a separate denomination.&#8221; In this case they are aligning themselves with the growing majority of Anglican churches around the world&#8211;an alignment that liberal Episcopalians are choosing to abandon by their recent actions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/richard_mouw\/2008\/12\/wrong_to_leave_episcopal_churc.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a complicated issue for many of us who worry about the theological direction of the Episcopal Church in the USA (ECUSA). For one thing, I hate to see conservatives leave over women&#8217;s ordination. What that means, among other<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10216\">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":[36,42,605,82,66,419,154,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-proposed-formation-of-a-new-north-american-province","category-common-cause-partnership","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","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=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}