{"id":30265,"date":"2012-01-12T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_ap_story_on_the_recent_legal_ruling_in_the_episcopal_anglican_parishes_d\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:35:06","slug":"an_ap_story_on_the_recent_legal_ruling_in_the_episcopal_anglican_parishes_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30265","title":{"rendered":"An AP story on the recent Legal Ruling in the Episcopal\/Anglican Parishes Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The years-long litigation has been expensive for all involved. The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has lost congregations that collectively contributed $10.4 million directly to the diocese in the 20-year period before the dispute erupted.<\/p>\n<p>And the breakaway congregations have spent millions of dollars in legal fees. Warren Thrasher, executive director at Truro, said the 1,200 members of that church alone have spent roughly $2 million on legal bills, raised through a legal defense fund kept separate from the rest of the church\u2019s ministry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/episcopal-church-wins-long-fought-lawsuit-over-control-of-historic-churches-in-virginia\/2012\/01\/11\/gIQAqc05qP_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The years-long litigation has been expensive for all involved. The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has lost congregations that collectively contributed $10.4 million directly to the diocese in the 20-year period before the dispute erupted. And the breakaway congregations have spent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30265\">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":[36,48,39,68,66,114,184,441,372,376,642,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-cana","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-virginia","category-tec-departing-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30265","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=30265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}