{"id":19786,"date":"2010-05-17T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/next_bishops_big_challenge_grow_a_shrinking_episcopal_church_in_utah\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T01:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T01:00:24","slug":"next_bishops_big_challenge_grow_a_shrinking_episcopal_church_in_utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19786","title":{"rendered":"Next bishop&#39;s big challenge: Grow a shrinking Episcopal Church in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question put to the Rev. Michael Barlowe is on the minds of many Utahns as they quiz four candidates for bishop:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where do you see the Episcopal Church in Utah in three years?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barlowe&#8217;s answer, given recently to a group of Episcopalians in Ogden, is both a joke about the state&#8217;s culture and a wish &#8212; and it is greeted with applause:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not the prophet,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But I would hope we&#8217;d be a much larger church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, growing the church is very much on the minds of Utah Episcopalians as they come to the end of an 18-month process of selecting a new bishop to replace the Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, Utah&#8217;s 10th Episcopal bishop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/D=g\/ci_15080730\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question put to the Rev. Michael Barlowe is on the minds of many Utahns as they quiz four candidates for bishop: &#8220;Where do you see the Episcopal Church in Utah in three years?&#8221; Barlowe&#8217;s answer, given recently to a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19786\">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":[36,48,66,440,184,372,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19786","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=19786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}