{"id":29488,"date":"2011-11-23T21:40:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_ap_article_on_bishop_mark_lawrence_and_the_diocese_of_south_carolina\/"},"modified":"2011-11-23T21:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:40:34","slug":"an_ap_article_on_bishop_mark_lawrence_and_the_diocese_of_south_carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29488","title":{"rendered":"An AP Article on Bishop Mark Lawrence and the Diocese of South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Bishop Mark] Lawrence said the national Episcopal Church is threatening the unity of the Anglican communion. He said in the diocese &#8220;while we are in the vast minority of the Episcopal Church, we hold positions that Anglicans have held for the past 400 to 500 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2 million-member Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion, which has 77 million members worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that the founders of the Episcopal Church ever envisioned a day when issues of theology and constitutionality would have arisen as they have arisen right now. I ask myself: &#8216;What are we here in the Diocese of South Carolina called to do?'&#8221; he asked. &#8220;My gut reaction was this day would come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2011\/11\/23\/2056980\/sc-bishop-being-investigated-amid.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Bishop Mark] Lawrence said the national Episcopal Church is threatening the unity of the Anglican communion. He said in the diocese &#8220;while we are in the vast minority of the Episcopal Church, we hold positions that Anglicans have held for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29488\">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":[36,54,66,168,78,514,79,376,646,380,371,34,169,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-south-carolina","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina","category-tec-parishes","category-tec-polity-canons","category-theology","category-theology-scripture","category-windsor-report-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488","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=29488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}