{"id":29333,"date":"2011-11-14T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faith_and_leadership_frank_griswold_maybe_this_is_the_desert_time\/"},"modified":"2011-11-14T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:00:43","slug":"faith_and_leadership_frank_griswold_maybe_this_is_the_desert_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29333","title":{"rendered":"(Faith and Leadership) Frank Griswold: Maybe this is the desert time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church and the Protestant mainline in America today may be going through a normal \u201cpaschal pattern\u201d\u009d &#8212; a dying and a rising &#8212; that all churches go through, said Bishop Frank T. Griswold. And that is not necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an arrogance and a self-confidence that is shattered by things falling apart,\u201d\u009d said Griswold, former presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. But beneath the church\u2019s many challenges is an invitation to deeper wisdom, a hidden grace that leads to new insight, wisdom and resurrection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo use an image from the Old Testament, maybe this is the desert time,\u201d\u009d Griswold said. \u201cThe desert was a period of purification and self-knowledge in order that they were prepared to enter the promised land.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandleadership.com\/qa\/frank-griswold-maybe-the-desert-time\">Take the time to read the whole interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church and the Protestant mainline in America today may be going through a normal \u201cpaschal pattern\u201d\u009d &#8212; a dying and a rising &#8212; that all churches go through, said Bishop Frank T. Griswold. And that is not necessarily<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29333\">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":[36,48,186,66,435,184,177,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29333","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=29333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}