{"id":13464,"date":"2009-06-22T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dallas_morning_news_anglicans_flock_to_d-fw_for_first_meeting_of_new_group\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:45:11","slug":"dallas_morning_news_anglicans_flock_to_d-fw_for_first_meeting_of_new_group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13464","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Morning News: Anglicans flock to D-FW for first meeting of New Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Ian] Douglas is not convinced that this week&#8217;s assembly is all that important.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen it before,&#8221; he said, referring to earlier gatherings of those disenchanted with the Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>But another Episcopal priest, the Rev. William Sachs \u201d\u201c a historian and author of the forthcoming book Homosexuality and the Crisis of Anglicanism \u201d\u201c called the Bedford meeting &#8220;a very big deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the new group will be taken much more seriously if it emerges seeming united and willing to work through established procedures for recognition by the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Sachs added: &#8220;The challenge before them is to come out of there with a message that is positive and distinctive and not simply a shared spirit of protest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/religion\/stories\/DN-anglicans_22met.ART.State.Edition1.4aa8fd4.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ian] Douglas is not convinced that this week&#8217;s assembly is all that important. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen it before,&#8221; he said, referring to earlier gatherings of those disenchanted with the Episcopal Church. But another Episcopal priest, the Rev. William Sachs \u201d\u201c a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13464\">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":[36,605,623,63,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-proposed-formation-of-a-new-north-american-province","category-acna-inaugural-assembly-june-2009","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-common-cause-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464","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=13464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}