{"id":12273,"date":"2009-04-14T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T02:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bishop_of_arkansas_votes_no_on_northern_michigan\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T02:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T02:00:57","slug":"the_bishop_of_arkansas_votes_no_on_northern_michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12273","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Arkansas Votes No on Northern Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Larry Benfield, the Episcopal Bishop of Little Rock, has voted against the confirmation of Kevin Genpo Thew Forrester as bishop of Northern Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Benfield said he was concerned that Thew Forrester had altered the denomination\u2019s rite of baptism without the approval of the broader church. The rite is included in the Book of Common Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Thew Forrester has used and promoted a \u201cTrial Baptismal Liturgy\u201d\u009d which removes any mention of Satan and adds New-Age style language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biblebeltblogger.com\/index.php\/religion\/arkansas-rejects-syncretic-bishop\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Larry Benfield, the Episcopal Bishop of Little Rock, has voted against the confirmation of Kevin Genpo Thew Forrester as bishop of Northern Michigan. In an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Benfield said he was concerned that Thew Forrester<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12273\">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":[36,48,66,183,372,376,640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-northern-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273","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=12273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}