{"id":10941,"date":"2009-01-27T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_virginia_a_tiny_church_with_big_aspirations_and_affiliations\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T18:10:26","slug":"in_virginia_a_tiny_church_with_big_aspirations_and_affiliations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10941","title":{"rendered":"In Virginia a Tiny church with big Aspirations and Affiliations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The path taken by Epiphany&#8217;s tiny congregation mirrors that of the Episcopal church at large over the last few years \u201d\u201c\u201d\u201c splintering, adapting and reinventing itself. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a Reformation. Many have left at great cost, leaving buildings, incomes and pensions,&#8221; says congregant Leslie Frye, wife of Canon Ralph Frye.<\/p>\n<p>Their reasons are to maintain a closer adherence to the Scriptures than the established Episcopal church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult when higher-ups are not hewing to the Bible,&#8221; says Leslie Hanna, one of Epiphany&#8217;s original members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/features\/dp-gl_norgechurch_0125jan25,0,6080064.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The path taken by Epiphany&#8217;s tiny congregation mirrors that of the Episcopal church at large over the last few years \u201d\u201c\u201d\u201c splintering, adapting and reinventing itself. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a Reformation. Many have left at great cost, leaving buildings, incomes and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10941\">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":[36,48,605,82,66,184,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-proposed-formation-of-a-new-north-american-province","category-common-cause-partnership","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941","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=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}