{"id":26343,"date":"2011-05-24T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/few_suitable_choices_for_scottish_worshippers\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:15:41","slug":"few_suitable_choices_for_scottish_worshippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26343","title":{"rendered":"Few suitable choices for Scottish worshippers who want to find new theological home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those Kirk members who feel compelled to leave the Church following today&#8217;s vote, the question of where they go is littered with potential problems, both theological and practical. If, as it would seem, it is more likely those in the traditionalist wing of the Church walk, then there are two options.<\/p>\n<p>The first is to splinter entirely and form themselves into an entirely new presbyterian church. Such an outcome would be similar to that of the Disruption in 1843, when the Kirk split over the Church&#8217;s relationship with the state, resulting in the formation of the Free Church of Scotland&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The second path would see members of the Kirk moving to the Free Church of Scotland, which holds a staunchly conservative view on homosexuality&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scotland\/Few-suitable-choices-for-worshippers.6772700.jp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those Kirk members who feel compelled to leave the Church following today&#8217;s vote, the question of where they go is littered with potential problems, both theological and practical. If, as it would seem, it is more likely those in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26343\">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":[48,39,50,42,172,199,168,154,184,420,108,326,159,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecclesiology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pentecostal","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26343","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=26343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}