{"id":13554,"date":"2009-06-26T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/oklahoma_clergy_hail_birth_of_a_denomination\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:15:52","slug":"oklahoma_clergy_hail_birth_of_a_denomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13554","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Clergy hail birth of a denomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Tulsa-area ministers are elated about the historic creation of the Anglican Church in North America, a denomination formed by conservative churches and members who left the Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>Six years after the Episcopal Church consecrated a gay bishop, setting off a firestorm of protests, delegates meeting in Bedford, Texas, this week officially constituted the new Anglican church with 700 congregations and 100,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful,&#8221; said the Rev. Briane Turley, rector of Tulsa&#8217;s Church of the Holy Spirit Anglican, which left the Episcopal Church several years ago over concerns that the church was drifting from its biblical foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=11&#038;articleid=20090625_18_A13_TwoTul860966&#038;rss_lnk=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Tulsa-area ministers are elated about the historic creation of the Anglican Church in North America, a denomination formed by conservative churches and members who left the Episcopal Church. Six years after the Episcopal Church consecrated a gay bishop, setting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13554\">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":[36,623,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-acna-inaugural-assembly-june-2009","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554","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=13554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}