{"id":27697,"date":"2011-08-07T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/san_joaquin_valley_churches_move_on_after_splits_on_values\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T23:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T23:00:25","slug":"san_joaquin_valley_churches_move_on_after_splits_on_values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27697","title":{"rendered":"San Joaquin Valley churches move on after splits on values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some national church denominations have changed their standards in recent years \u201d\u201c stirring debate among congregations about whether to stay or find a new path.<\/p>\n<p>In the central San Joaquin Valley, some congregations have chosen to leave their denominations because, they say, it doesn&#8217;t represent their traditional values. The goodbyes have worked out for the churches, but they have been difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The trend has reached three major denominations \u201d\u201c the U.S. Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (USA) and most recently the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2011\/08\/05\/2490283\/valley-churches-move-on-after.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some national church denominations have changed their standards in recent years \u201d\u201c stirring debate among congregations about whether to stay or find a new path. In the central San Joaquin Valley, some congregations have chosen to leave their denominations because,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27697\">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":[36,48,42,66,363,154,184,417,514,79,159,376,658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-san-joaquin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27697","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=27697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}