{"id":1952,"date":"2007-09-18T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/joan_chittisters_column_we_all_need_the_anglicans_right_now\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T21:18:00","slug":"joan_chittisters_column_we_all_need_the_anglicans_right_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Joan  Chittister&#39;s Column: We all need the Anglicans right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/ncrcafe.org\/node\/1336\" title=\"http:\/\/ncrcafe.org\/node\/1336\">Read it all<\/a>.  Predictably and depressingly she starts by defining the symptomatic issue incorrectly, and then goes on to define the core issue in far too American terms:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So the question the Anglican communion is facing for us all right now is a clear one: What happens to a group, to a church, that stands poised to choose either confusion or tyranny, either anarchy or authoritarianism, either unity or uniformity? Are there really only two choices possible at such a moment? Is there nowhere in-between?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>And, forgive me, but I do think the Bible has something to do with it&#8211;but that gets no mention<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncrcafe.org\/node\/1336\" title=\"http:\/\/ncrcafe.org\/node\/1336\">Anyway, read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all. Predictably and depressingly she starts by defining the symptomatic issue incorrectly, and then goes on to define the core issue in far too American terms: So the question the Anglican communion is facing for us all right<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1952\">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":[36,42,66,154,364,514,79,372,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","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=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}