{"id":27815,"date":"2011-08-14T22:19:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_buffalo_area_anglican_church_assumes_central_role_in_new_diocese\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T22:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T22:19:05","slug":"in_buffalo_area_anglican_church_assumes_central_role_in_new_diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27815","title":{"rendered":"In the Buffalo area, an Anglican church assumes central role in new diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When members of St. Bartholomew\u2019s Church in the Town of Tonawanda decided in 2008 to leave the Episcopal Church, they didn\u2019t know for sure where they fit in the larger structure of Anglicanism.<\/p>\n<p>Less than three years later, the parish has become a pivotal congregation within the Anglican Church in North America, a rival to the Episcopal Church that grew from a rift between theological conservatives and liberal Episcopalians over Bible interpretation and the ordination of a gay bishop.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the congregation served as host for a conference of the International Diocese, the new diocese to which it belongs as part of the Anglican Church in North America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city\/communities\/tonawanda\/article521170.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When members of St. Bartholomew\u2019s Church in the Town of Tonawanda decided in 2008 to leave the Episcopal Church, they didn\u2019t know for sure where they fit in the larger structure of Anglicanism. Less than three years later, the parish<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27815\">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":[36,63,175,66,168,79,376,647,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27815","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=27815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}