{"id":24953,"date":"2011-03-07T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pastor_accused_of_shoving_parishioner_76_at_troubled_st-_lukes_episcopal_ch\/"},"modified":"2011-03-07T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:21:00","slug":"pastor_accused_of_shoving_parishioner_76_at_troubled_st-_lukes_episcopal_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24953","title":{"rendered":"Pastor accused of shoving parishioner, 76, at troubled St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church in Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simmering, months-long conflict between congregants at Kalamazoo\u2019s St. Luke&#8217;s Episcopal Church and church officials reached a boiling point Sunday, with a police report filed against the pastor for allegedly shoving an elderly parishioner.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Jay R. Lawlor was accused of pushing Marcia Morrison, 76, whose family owns Morrison Jewelers, during a heated discussion about recent events at the church. A witness said Morrison was not injured in the incident, which occurred immediately after Sunday morning\u2019s service.<\/p>\n<p>The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety confirmed that a police report was filed. Neither Lawlor nor Morrison could be reached for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/kalamazoo\/index.ssf\/2011\/03\/pastor_accused_of_shoving_pari.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simmering, months-long conflict between congregants at Kalamazoo\u2019s St. Luke&#8217;s Episcopal Church and church officials reached a boiling point Sunday, with a police report filed against the pastor for allegedly shoving an elderly parishioner. The Rev. Jay R. Lawlor was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24953\">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":[36,48,66,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24953","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=24953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}