{"id":15793,"date":"2009-10-28T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tec_affiliated_diocese_of_fort_worth_to_have_its_first_ordination_of_woman_\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:54:11","slug":"tec_affiliated_diocese_of_fort_worth_to_have_its_first_ordination_of_woman_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15793","title":{"rendered":"TEC affiliated Diocese of Fort Worth to have its first ordination of woman to priesthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth was long known as one of the most conservative in the Episcopal Church, and one measure was the refusal by its bishops to ordain women to the priesthood.<\/p>\n<p>When a large majority of clergy and lay delegates of the diocese voted to follow Bishop Jack Iker&#8217;s recommendation and leave the Episcopal Church, that split the diocese into churches leaving the denomination (most of them) and those choosing to stay.<\/p>\n<p>The group choosing to stay has long wanted to ordain women to the priesthood &#8211; and that will finally happen in Fort Worth this Sunday. Deacon Susan Slaughter will be the history-maker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/episcopal-diocese-of-fort-wort.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth was long known as one of the most conservative in the Episcopal Church, and one measure was the refusal by its bishops to ordain women to the priesthood. When a large majority of clergy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15793\">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":[36,48,39,66,435,184,376,655,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-fort-worth","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793","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=15793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}