{"id":14210,"date":"2009-08-01T01:13:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T01:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eileen_flynn-episcopalians_plight_change_vs-_communion\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T01:13:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T01:13:19","slug":"eileen_flynn-episcopalians_plight_change_vs-_communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14210","title":{"rendered":"Eileen Flynn&#8211;Episcopalians&#39; plight: change vs. communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new acquaintance, a self-described traditional Christian who has issues with the ordination of women (never mind gays and lesbians), shook his head. From his perspective, the Episcopal Church is out of touch with the majority and has failed to recognize its place in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I would argue that Episcopalians, who number around 2 million in a worldwide church of 80 million, are acutely aware of their place on the global Christian stage&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Episcopalians know [about the global Church shift from North to South]. Whatever their views on sexuality, they speak passionately about the importance of preserving relations and avoiding a major schism.<\/p>\n<p>The question then becomes how to balance the desire to remain in communion with the desire to be fully inclusive of gay and lesbian members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/life\/content\/life\/stories\/faith\/2009\/08\/01\/0801flynn.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new acquaintance, a self-described traditional Christian who has issues with the ordination of women (never mind gays and lesbians), shook his head. From his perspective, the Episcopal Church is out of touch with the majority and has failed to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14210\">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":[36,74,66,378,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-global-south-churches-primates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210","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=14210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}