{"id":30601,"date":"2012-02-01T02:06:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_in_cleveland_a_battle_over_unwanted_churches\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T02:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:06:56","slug":"rns_in_cleveland_a_battle_over_unwanted_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30601","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) In Cleveland, a Battle over Unwanted Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transfiguration was built in the early 1900s and sits just north of a Cleveland Clinic parking garage. The Gothic Revival church was home to one of several congregations that broke off from the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The breakaway congregation recently moved to another location after a judge later decided the property must stay with the diocese. The building badly needs repairs, and a diocesan official, the Rev. Brad Purdom, said the diocese cannot restore every building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It breaks our hearts,&#8221; Purdom said. &#8220;But at the end of the day, you have to make some choices about how you&#8217;re going to spend the limited resources that you do have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethicsdaily.com\/in-cleveland-a-battle-over-unwanted-churches-cms-19183\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transfiguration was built in the early 1900s and sits just north of a Cleveland Clinic parking garage. The Gothic Revival church was home to one of several congregations that broke off from the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. The breakaway congregation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30601\">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":[36,48,39,40,42,149,66,600,154,184,108,380,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-tec-parishes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601","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=30601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}