{"id":31921,"date":"2012-04-11T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_a_church_divided_ruling_ends_virginias_episcopal_battle\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:17:38","slug":"npr_a_church_divided_ruling_ends_virginias_episcopal_battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31921","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) A Church Divided: Ruling Ends Virginia&#39;s Episcopal Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia is the epicenter of the Episcopal schism. Heathsville is one of seven churches \u201d\u201d including two of the largest and most historic in the country \u201d\u201d that broke away from the denomination in 2006. Now that they&#8217;ve lost their lawsuit, they all have to find new homes.<\/p>\n<p>Church of the Apostles is one of the seven breakaway churches. At its home in Fairfax, a half-dozen men wrestle with a 360-pound cross, panting as they remove it from its moorings in the sanctuary. Parishioner Wayne Marsh says the cross is going into storage and the church is being shuttered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad and heartbreaking, and it&#8217;s a tremendous loss,&#8221; he says, &#8220;but God has just given me a peace to understand this is his will and we&#8217;re going forward with it, not knowing exactly where we&#8217;re going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/04\/10\/150351713\/a-church-divided-ruling-ends-va-s-episcopal-battle\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia is the epicenter of the Episcopal schism. Heathsville is one of seven churches \u201d\u201d including two of the largest and most historic in the country \u201d\u201d that broke away from the denomination in 2006. Now that they&#8217;ve lost their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31921\">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":[36,48,39,186,66,168,114,184,177,373,372,376,647,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-church-history","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-presiding-bishop","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31921","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=31921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}