{"id":28620,"date":"2011-10-06T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper-episcopal_church_investigates_bishop_mark_lawrence\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:30:20","slug":"local_paper-episcopal_church_investigates_bishop_mark_lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28620","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper&#8211;Episcopal Church investigates Bishop Mark Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church has launched an investigation of Bishop Mark J. Lawrence a year after the Diocese of South Carolina voted to distance itself from the national church because of disagreements stemming from the 2003 consecration of an openly gay bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, the diocese, under the leadership of Lawrence, voted to strengthen its autonomy and &#8220;begin withdrawing&#8221; from the church. In February, it changed its constitution, asserting the authority of the local diocese over the national church. The national church&#8217;s accusation of abandonment sets the stage for disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/06\/episcopal-church-investigates-bishop-A\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church has launched an investigation of Bishop Mark J. Lawrence a year after the Diocese of South Carolina voted to distance itself from the national church because of disagreements stemming from the 2003 consecration of an openly gay<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28620\">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":[36,39,54,66,114,372,376,646,379,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-tec-polity-canons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28620","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=28620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}