{"id":26796,"date":"2011-06-18T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ens_a_message_from_executive_council_to_the_episcopal_church\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:25:00","slug":"ens_a_message_from_executive_council_to_the_episcopal_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26796","title":{"rendered":"(ENS) A message from Executive Council to the Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Cowan, liaison to Council from the Anglican Church in Canada, reflected that he found the conversations concerning the Dioceses of Quincy and San Joaquin intriguing.  He asked, &#8220;How do the dioceses that have suffered as a result of schism compare with those dioceses that are marginal? There are real concerns about viability, but where do these concerns mesh with plans for the extended mission of the Church?<\/p>\n<p>He also observed, &#8220;We have talked about &#8216;pruning for growth.&#8217; What does this mean to us? Pruning, whether for maintenance or for growth, hurts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/79425_128757_ENG_HTM.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Cowan, liaison to Council from the Anglican Church in Canada, reflected that he found the conversations concerning the Dioceses of Quincy and San Joaquin intriguing. He asked, &#8220;How do the dioceses that have suffered as a result of schism<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26796\">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":[36,388,74,66,377,376,653,658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-executive-council","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-quincy","category-tec-conflicts-san-joaquin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796","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=26796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}