{"id":21015,"date":"2010-07-30T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopal_committee_is_working_on_rite_for_blessing_same_sex_unions\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T17:01:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T17:01:53","slug":"episcopal_committee_is_working_on_rite_for_blessing_same_sex_unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21015","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Committee Is Working on Rite for Blessing Same Sex Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with a new $400,000 grant and the support of the Episcopal Church, a Berkeley seminary is convening priests from across the country to craft the liturgical rite for same-sex couples to receive religious blessings.<\/p>\n<p>The new rite, which will take years to complete, will most likely consist of a series of original prayers, Bible readings and two essays: one on the theological meaning of same-sex blessings, and one advising priests who administer the new rite. If approved, the new blessing would be just the third addition to Episcopal liturgy since 1979.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very significant,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Ruth Meyers, chairwoman of the church\u2019s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, who is heading the effort. \u201cIt does acknowledge a fuller participation of gays and lesbians in the life of the church.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/30\/us\/30bcrites.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with a new $400,000 grant and the support of the Episcopal Church, a Berkeley seminary is convening priests from across the country to craft the liturgical rite for same-sex couples to receive religious blessings. The new rite, which will<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21015\">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":[36,48,39,576,62,175,67,66,78,75,183,98,184,514,112,79,34,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-consultative-council","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-instruments-of-unity","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-windsor-report-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21015","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=21015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}