{"id":20305,"date":"2010-06-12T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_san_antoniio_discord_is_straining_christ_episcopal_church\/"},"modified":"2010-06-12T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T18:00:58","slug":"in_san_antoniio_discord_is_straining_christ_episcopal_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20305","title":{"rendered":"In San Antoniio, Discord is straining Christ Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the lay leaders of the largest and most influential Episcopal church in South Texas said Friday they will resign next week as they contemplate whether to leave the denomination \u201d\u201d a move that could lead to a split in the church as well.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the 16 people on Christ Episcopal Church\u2019s vestry informed the congregation they no longer in good conscience can be leaders in a denomination they believe has strayed from Scripture. One example is the national church\u2019s approval of gay and lesbian clergy.<\/p>\n<p>The vestry members\u2019 decision comes about a month after the church\u2019s rector, the Rev. Chuck Collins, announced his retirement for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/Discord_is_straining_Christ_Episcopal_96199389.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the lay leaders of the largest and most influential Episcopal church in South Texas said Friday they will resign next week as they contemplate whether to leave the denomination \u201d\u201d a move that could lead to a split<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20305\">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":[36,66,376,380,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-parishes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305","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=20305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}