{"id":32459,"date":"2012-05-12T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tension_cited_in_removal_of_st-_margarets_episcopal_church_priest_in_califo\/"},"modified":"2012-05-12T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T01:01:26","slug":"tension_cited_in_removal_of_st-_margarets_episcopal_church_priest_in_califo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32459","title":{"rendered":"Tension cited in removal of St. Margaret&#39;s Episcopal Church priest in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Brian O&#8217;Rourke, who oversaw family ministries, was dismissed from the post Thursday. In an open letter to the congregation, the Rev. James R. Mathes said he had worked for several months \u201cregarding various problems\u201d\u009d between the rector, the Rev. Lane Hensley, and O&#8217;Rourke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis relationship has deteriorated to the point where it can no longer be sustained,\u201d\u009d Mathes wrote. \u201cAfter considerable effort and prayer, I have come to the conclusion that for this reason, it is time to end Brian&#8217;s ministry at St. Margaret&#8217;s Episcopal Church effective immediately.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydesert.com\/article\/20120511\/NEWS01\/205110310\/Tension-cited-removal-St-Margaret-s-Episcopal-Church-priest\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Brian O&#8217;Rourke, who oversaw family ministries, was dismissed from the post Thursday. In an open letter to the congregation, the Rev. James R. Mathes said he had worked for several months \u201cregarding various problems\u201d\u009d between the rector, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32459\">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":[36,48,66,435,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32459","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=32459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}