{"id":3112,"date":"2007-11-21T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_times_episcopal_trial_weighs_concept_of_division\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T18:43:00","slug":"washington_times_episcopal_trial_weighs_concept_of_division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"Washington Times: Episcopal trial weighs concept of division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers and witnesses tangled yesterday over whether disaffected Episcopal congregations can be considered part of the 77-million-member worldwide Anglican Communion in the fourth day of a lawsuit at the Fairfax County courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Douglas, a professor at the Episcopal Divinity School, a seminary in Cambridge, Mass., repeatedly testified that the Anglican Communion is a &#8220;family of churches,&#8221; and therefore, not divisible into factions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8221;re not a global church,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8221;d be hard to create a division because it presupposes an intact whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/article\/20071120\/NATION\/111200046\/1002\/NATION\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers and witnesses tangled yesterday over whether disaffected Episcopal congregations can be considered part of the 77-million-member worldwide Anglican Communion in the fourth day of a lawsuit at the Fairfax County courthouse. Ian Douglas, a professor at the Episcopal Divinity<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3112\">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":[36,66,376,642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}