{"id":15844,"date":"2009-10-31T20:46:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T20:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopalians_in_minnesota_will_elect_new_bishop_today\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T20:46:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T20:46:51","slug":"episcopalians_in_minnesota_will_elect_new_bishop_today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15844","title":{"rendered":"Episcopalians in Minnesota will elect new bishop today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day No. 2 of the diocese&#8217;s annual convention includes a vote on five candidates, two of whom would represent a first: the first openly partnered lesbian to be elected a bishop, or the first Native American. Both insist that making history is not their primary motivation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a cause, I&#8217;m a candidate,&#8221; said the Rev. Bonnie Perry. The Rev. Doyle Turner struck a similar tone, noting that while he&#8217;s proud of his Ojibwe heritage, &#8220;I&#8217;m not the pastor of a Native American church, and it&#8217;s my church that has encouraged me [to run].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The winner will succeed Bishop James Jelinek in overseeing 106 congregations representing 22,000 members. Jelinek is retiring in February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/faith\/67678812.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day No. 2 of the diocese&#8217;s annual convention includes a vote on five candidates, two of whom would represent a first: the first openly partnered lesbian to be elected a bishop, or the first Native American. Both insist that making<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15844\">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":[36,66,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844","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=15844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}