{"id":12309,"date":"2009-04-16T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bishop_of_olympia_explains_why_he_voted_no_on_northern_michigan\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:30:41","slug":"the_bishop_of_olympia_explains_why_he_voted_no_on_northern_michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12309","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Olympia explains why He Voted no on Northern Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, what troubles me the most about this situation is Thew Forrester\u2019s revision of liturgical texts, most especially the Baptismal Liturgy, the very core vow and liturgy of our faith. In a document circulated for the House of Bishops from Thew Forrester, he states that he and his congregation have \u201cexplored\u201d\u009d the Baptismal liturgy, removing the reference to \u201cSatan\u201d\u009d and \u201caccepting [Christ] as the way of Life and Hope.\u201d\u009d This action was to \u201ccomplement the BCP \u201d\u009d( Liturgy and Community, The Diocese of Northern Michigan , Kevin Thew Forrester, Lent 2009). In the same document, he states that he uses the Book of Common Prayer as a \u201cprimary resource.\u201d\u009d This brought me full circle. The very basis of Total Common Ministry and our very call to life as a Christian\u201d\u201dthe baptismal vow and liturgy\u201d\u201dwas being revised, and this is a concern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bishoprickel.com\/bishop_rickels_blog\/2009\/04\/the-election-in-northern-michigan.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, what troubles me the most about this situation is Thew Forrester\u2019s revision of liturgical texts, most especially the Baptismal Liturgy, the very core vow and liturgy of our faith. In a document circulated for the House of Bishops from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12309\">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":[36,66,372,376,640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-northern-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309","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=12309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}