{"id":23051,"date":"2010-11-22T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_western_massachusetts_the_presiding_bishop_urges_focus_on_living_the_gos\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:04:58","slug":"in_western_massachusetts_the_presiding_bishop_urges_focus_on_living_the_gos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23051","title":{"rendered":"In Western Massachusetts, the Presiding Bishop urges focus on living the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portrayed historically as the spiritual home of the well-to-do, it has produced 21 presidents and a batch of Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Bishop Jefferts Schori said, the Hispanic mother and father from California who were recently featured in an advertisement broadcast on a digital billboard in Manhattan\u2019s Times Square are more representative of today\u2019s church.<\/p>\n<p>She said the American church is like a large spiritual umbrella and she wants to open it up further to welcome more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur strength is diversity and that drives some crazy,\u201d\u009d Bishop Jefferts Schori said. \u201cWe might struggle with the boundaries that define us as a church but we have to be welcoming of new groups. We cannot be monochromatic.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20101122\/NEWS\/11220350\/1003\/NEWS03\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrayed historically as the spiritual home of the well-to-do, it has produced 21 presidents and a batch of Supreme Court justices. Yet, Bishop Jefferts Schori said, the Hispanic mother and father from California who were recently featured in an advertisement<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23051\">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":[36,66,373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-presiding-bishop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051","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=23051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}