{"id":32452,"date":"2012-05-11T15:46:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_episcopal_leaders_forgive_maryland_church_shooter\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:46:30","slug":"ap_episcopal_leaders_forgive_maryland_church_shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32452","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Episcopal leaders forgive Maryland church shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland is offering forgiveness and a funeral service for a homeless man who killed himself after fatally shooting a priest and church secretary last week.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton and an academic expert on forgiveness likened the diocese&#8217;s attitude to that of an Amish community in Lancaster County, Pa., that forgave the man who fatally shot five school girls there in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is a painful, hard process,&#8221; Sutton told The Associated Press after last Thursday&#8217;s shooting. &#8220;But we learned something a few years ago, made manifest by the Amish community, when a gunman came into that school: Eventually, that community went to the family of that murderer and extended forgiveness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/05\/09\/2791635\/episcopal-leaders-forgive-maryland.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland is offering forgiveness and a funeral service for a homeless man who killed himself after fatally shooting a priest and church secretary last week. Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton and an academic expert on forgiveness likened<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32452\">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":[36,48,39,438,66,184,177,372,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-tec-bishops","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32452","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=32452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}