{"id":10924,"date":"2009-01-26T19:26:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopal_diocese_of_western_new_york_forms_new_church\/"},"modified":"2009-01-26T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:26:50","slug":"episcopal_diocese_of_western_new_york_forms_new_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10924","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Diocese of Western New York forms new church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One friend told her, \u201cRun away and run quickly.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But the Rev. Sarah E. Gordy decided not to retreat from the intriguing task of establishing a new Episcopal congregation in the church building of her youth \u201d\u201d a sanctuary that a thriving congregation packed up and left slightly more than a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Gordy, an Episcopal priest, will celebrate her first liturgy as vicar of Holy Apostle Episcopal Church in the Town of Tonawanda.<\/p>\n<p>The mission parish was created by the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York following last month\u2019s departure of most members of the former St. Bartholomew\u2019s Episcopal Church, a large, conservative congregation that had been at odds for years with the direction of the national church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/cityregion\/story\/560277.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One friend told her, \u201cRun away and run quickly.\u201d\u009d But the Rev. Sarah E. Gordy decided not to retreat from the intriguing task of establishing a new Episcopal congregation in the church building of her youth \u201d\u201d a sanctuary that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10924\">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":[36,66,514,79,376,647,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10924","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-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924","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=10924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}