{"id":24367,"date":"2011-02-04T02:15:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_michigan_save_christ_church_leader_calls_for_clergy_resignation\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T02:15:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:15:40","slug":"in_michigan_save_christ_church_leader_calls_for_clergy_resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24367","title":{"rendered":"In Michigan &#39;Save Christ Church&#39; leader calls for clergy resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after 57 percent of voting members of the Christ Church of Lonsdale rejected their rector&#8217;s plea that they merge with Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, opposition leader Walter Scott is calling for a brand new team of lay and clergy leaders.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Rev. Scott Gunn Monday, Walter Scott said of his Committee to Save Christ Church, &#8220;It is our sincere hope that the entire clergy will voluntarily resign prior to (the Feb. 13 annual) meeting and that includes the current vestry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott is offering to take on the role of senior warden, the highest lay position in the church and head of the governing board, which is called the vestry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/breezepapers.com\/2011\/02\/02\/cl\/save-christ-church-leader-calls-for-clergy-resignation\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after 57 percent of voting members of the Christ Church of Lonsdale rejected their rector&#8217;s plea that they merge with Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, opposition leader Walter Scott is calling for a brand new team of lay<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24367\">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":[36,48,66,437,435,184,177,380,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-tec-parishes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24367","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=24367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}