{"id":12155,"date":"2009-04-08T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/does_the_presiding_bishop_know_her_own_church\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:45:20","slug":"does_the_presiding_bishop_know_her_own_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12155","title":{"rendered":"Does the Presiding Bishop Know her own Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20090408\/NEWS\/904080346\" title=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20090408\/NEWS\/904080346\">From her recent visit to Delaware we read this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She also pointed out that white Episcopal congregations are not growing. &#8220;No single diocese in the United States has grown in recent years,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>If this is an accurate quote, it is an error as blog readers perhaps will know.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/documents\/Members_by_Prov__Diocese_97-07.pdf\">You can look here to see the figures for yourself. I have no desire to elevate South Carolina as we have all sorts of problems and struggles here, as do other dioceses, and, as you can see, there are other places where there is growth (i.e. North Carolina)-KSH<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From her recent visit to Delaware we read this: She also pointed out that white Episcopal congregations are not growing. &#8220;No single diocese in the United States has grown in recent years,&#8221; she said. If this is an accurate quote,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12155\">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":[36,54,66,373,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-south-carolina","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-presiding-bishop","category-tec-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155","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=12155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}