{"id":10642,"date":"2009-01-11T05:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_harry_shipps_tradition_reason_set_episcopalians_apart\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T05:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T05:01:59","slug":"bishop_harry_shipps_tradition_reason_set_episcopalians_apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10642","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Harry Shipps: Tradition, reason set Episcopalians apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now retired, the 82-year-old New Jersey native marks the debate over the ordination of women as one of the most significant moments of his lifetime in the Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy it has come about. The church has been blessed with all these additional priests and bishops,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Shipps marked the 50th anniversary of his own ordination as a priest and 25 years since the day he was consecrated as a bishop with a Tuesday worship service at the Episcopal Church of St. Paul the Apostle.<\/p>\n<p>New and equally weighty issues have followed the debate around women, such as homosexuality and evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Shipps has welcomed them as opportunities to discuss and explore the meaning of faith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/node\/650332\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now retired, the 82-year-old New Jersey native marks the debate over the ordination of women as one of the most significant moments of his lifetime in the Episcopal Church. &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy it has come about. The church has been<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10642\">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":[36,66,514,79,372,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642","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=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}