{"id":12330,"date":"2009-04-17T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_rns_article_on_the_northern_michigan_episcopal_controversy\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:14:07","slug":"an_rns_article_on_the_northern_michigan_episcopal_controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12330","title":{"rendered":"An RNS article on the Northern Michigan Episcopal Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of bishops and elected standing committees in the denomination&#8217;s 110 dioceses must approve, or give &#8220;consent,&#8221; to Thew Forrester&#8217;s election or it is tossed out.<\/p>\n<p>But the controversy has done more than jeopardize Thew Forrester&#8217;s promotion and stoke already-high tensions in the 2.2 million-member Episcopal Church. It also heralds a new era in church politics that mirrors mainstream culture, when online research and partisan tactics can combine to make or break a career, observers say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thirty years ago, if a person was elected as bishop, it would be almost impossible for the church, broadly speaking, to see his sermons,&#8221; said Bishop Edward Little of Northern Indiana. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s good or bad, but that&#8217;s the way it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=17919\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of bishops and elected standing committees in the denomination&#8217;s 110 dioceses must approve, or give &#8220;consent,&#8221; to Thew Forrester&#8217;s election or it is tossed out. But the controversy has done more than jeopardize Thew Forrester&#8217;s promotion and stoke<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12330\">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":[36,66,372,376,640,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12330","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","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330","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=12330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}