{"id":17397,"date":"2010-01-19T23:51:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ephraim_radner_an_unrealistic_proposal_for_the_sake_of_the_gospel\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T23:51:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:51:46","slug":"ephraim_radner_an_unrealistic_proposal_for_the_sake_of_the_gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17397","title":{"rendered":"Ephraim Radner: An Unrealistic Proposal for the Sake of the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of the tragedy in Haiti, I want to make a proposal. It\u2019s not a realistic proposal, I grant; but it is a serious one. My proposal is this: that all those Anglicans involved in litigation amongst one another in North America \u201d\u201d both in the Episcopal Church and those outside of TEC; in the Anglican Church of Canada, and those outside \u201d\u201d herewith cease all court battles over property. And, having done this, they do two further things:<\/p>\n<p>a. devote the forecast amount they were planning to spend on such litigation to the rebuilding of the Episcopal Church and its people in Haiti; and<\/p>\n<p>b. sit down with one another, prayerfully and for however long it takes, and with whatever mediating and facilitating presence they accept, and agree to a mutually agreed process for dealing with contested property.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/news\/news-updates\/2010\/1\/18\/an-unrealistic-proposal-for-the-sake-of-the-gospel\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of the tragedy in Haiti, I want to make a proposal. It\u2019s not a realistic proposal, I grant; but it is a serious one. My proposal is this: that all those Anglicans involved in litigation amongst one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17397\">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":[36,48,39,50,63,206,66,241,114,184,441,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-caribbean","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-haiti","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397","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=17397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}