{"id":25077,"date":"2011-03-14T17:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/saint_louis_post-dispatch_episcopal_cleric_tries_islamic_rituals_for_lent\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T17:38:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:38:04","slug":"saint_louis_post-dispatch_episcopal_cleric_tries_islamic_rituals_for_lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25077","title":{"rendered":"(Saint Louis Post-Dispatch) Episcopal cleric tries Islamic rituals for Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Steve Lawler should have just given up chocolate or television for Lent.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Lawler, of St. Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Ferguson, decided to adopt the rituals of Islam for 40 days to gain a deeper understanding of the faith.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he faced being defrocked if he continued in those endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can&#8217;t be both a Christian and a Muslim,&#8221; said Bishop George Wayne Smith of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri. &#8220;If he chooses to practice as Muslim, then he would, by default, give up his Christian identity and priesthood in the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/faith-and-values\/article_b3a20403-96c5-5766-af26-8fd662652a13.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Steve Lawler should have just given up chocolate or television for Lent. Instead, Lawler, of St. Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Ferguson, decided to adopt the rituals of Islam for 40 days to gain a deeper understanding of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25077\">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":[36,48,42,172,66,426,435,659,155,184,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecclesiology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-islam","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077","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=25077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}