{"id":2339,"date":"2007-10-07T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_npr_foreign_archbishops_flock_to_us_congregations\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T23:46:00","slug":"from_npr_foreign_archbishops_flock_to_us_congregations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"From NPR: Foreign Archbishops Flock to U.S. Congregations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Episcopal Church has been estranged from parts of the global Anglican church since a church in New Hampshire consecrated a gay bishop. The controversy has abated somewhat, but many in the church now worry about another potential divide. Depending on your point of view, African bishops are either stealing American worshippers \u201d\u201d or rescuing them.<\/p>\n<p>Just as Western missionaries spread the Christian message to Africa, African and other Anglican leaders are staking claims in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two years, there&#8217;s been a flurry of reverse colonization as archbishops from Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Bolivia and Singapore have taken conservative Episcopal churches under their wings.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15080014\">Listen to it all<\/a>.  Two factual goofs to note. Jim Naughton works for the (Episcopal) Diocese of Washington, not the archdiocese.  And, the second largest denomination in the world is the Orthodox Church; Anglicanism is often ranked third&#8211;KSH.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Episcopal Church has been estranged from parts of the global Anglican church since a church in New Hampshire consecrated a gay bishop. The controversy has abated somewhat, but many in the church now worry about another potential divide.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2339\">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":[36,66,78,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","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=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}