{"id":22593,"date":"2010-10-28T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lutheran_and_anglican_bishops_brainstorm_solutions_to_common_problems\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:45:26","slug":"lutheran_and_anglican_bishops_brainstorm_solutions_to_common_problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22593","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Lutheran and Anglican bishops brainstorm solutions to common problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Anglican Journal) Canadian Lutheran churches appear to be faced with many of the same problems known to Canadian Anglicans.<\/p>\n<p>These include shrinking congregations and an increased interest in weekly eucharist.<\/p>\n<p>According to Susan Johnson, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), this is leading Lutherans to look at such measures as the use of ordained pastors as \u201ccircuit riders\u201d\u009d bringing the eucharist to a number of parishes. Speaking here at the Oct. 22-25 joint meeting of the Anglican House of Bishops and Lutheran Conference of Bishops, she added there has also been pressure to revive a practice of permitting lay people to preside at the sacrament, as some Lutheran churches did at one time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/news-update-items\/article\/lutheran-and-anglican-bishops-brainstorm-solutions-to-common-problems-9410.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Anglican Journal) Canadian Lutheran churches appear to be faced with many of the same problems known to Canadian Anglicans. These include shrinking congregations and an increased interest in weekly eucharist. According to Susan Johnson, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22593\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,388,74,207,158,363,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-ecumenical-relations","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593","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=22593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}