{"id":1138,"date":"2007-07-28T23:21:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T23:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/one_senior_warden_speaks_from_the_heart\/"},"modified":"2007-07-28T23:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T23:21:01","slug":"one_senior_warden_speaks_from_the_heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"One Senior Warden Speaks from the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventbirmingham.org\/articles.asp?ID=3256\">From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The Standing Committee [of Alabama] and Bishop Parsley hosted a Diocesan Forum on &#8220;Communion Matters: A Study Document for the Episcopal Church&#8221;, at All Saints&#8217; Church in Homewood, on July 24th, 2007. Here are the comments offered by Mr. George Elliott, our Senior Warden:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bishop Parsley, Mr. President, I am George Elliott, Senior Warden of the Cathedral Church of the Advent. I am joined by our Junior Warden and the members of the Vestry who stand here with me. I speak on behalf of this Vestry and have good reason to believe that I also speak for at least 70% of our 3,800+ member parish. As a friend in Christ, I am here to speak to you in love and with all due respect about the document, &#8216;Communion Matters&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We at the Advent are disappointed with the document because it does not lead us even to consider repentance and compliance with the clear advice and requests of the Primates; actually, it leads us down the path of attempting to justify the current direction of the Episcopal Church. We do not believe this is the course that God intends for us as Christians to follow. We humbly and respectfully implore the leadership of the Diocese of Alabama to stand up and do the right thing. Tell the leaders of the Episcopal Church to turn back from their current direction and comply with the recent demands of the Primates of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Standing Committee [of Alabama] and Bishop Parsley hosted a Diocesan Forum on &#8220;Communion Matters: A Study Document for the Episcopal Church&#8221;, at All Saints&#8217; Church in Homewood, on July 24th, 2007. Here are the comments offered by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1138\">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":[36,76,80,81,66,517,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-covenant","category-anglican-identity","category-anglican-primates","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-primates-mtg-dar-es-salaam-feb-2007","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","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=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}