{"id":13979,"date":"2009-07-17T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishops_release_statement_affirming_membership_in_anglican_communion\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:40:23","slug":"bishops_release_statement_affirming_membership_in_anglican_communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13979","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of West Texas: Bishops Release Statement Affirming Membership in Anglican Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe majority voice has spoken at this General Convention,\u201d\u009d said Lillibridge later. \u201cBut I think it is important to also hear from the significant minority that represents about one-third both in the House of Bishops and House of Deputies.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He said that in the Diocese of West Texas, the focus will remain on being a part of The Episcopal Church and continuing as a constituent member of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of all of this,\u201d\u009d said Lillibridge, \u201cwhat I want to bring home to the diocese is the deepening of our conversation regarding the issue of human sexuality as well as the relationship between minorities and majorities as we all seek to work together.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dwtx.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/bishops-release-statement-affirming-membership-in-anglican-communion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe majority voice has spoken at this General Convention,\u201d\u009d said Lillibridge later. \u201cBut I think it is important to also hear from the significant minority that represents about one-third both in the House of Bishops and House of Deputies.\u201d\u009d He<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13979\">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":[36,65,366,66,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-primary-source","category-statements-letters-bishops","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979","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=13979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}