{"id":33533,"date":"2012-07-11T22:28:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T22:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_episcopal_approval_of_same-sex_blessings_will_it_hurt_churchs_global_ti\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T22:28:39","slug":"csm_episcopal_approval_of_same-sex_blessings_will_it_hurt_churchs_global_ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33533","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Episcopal approval of same-sex blessings: Will it hurt church&#39;s global ties?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the church to say, \u201d\u02dcThis is an active part of our life in ministry, and we support this,\u2019 is an extraordinarily important step,\u201d\u009d said the Very Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. \u201cIt shows that when this church says it welcomes all people, it means it&#8230;.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means the Episcopal Church is now separating itself that much more from the Anglican Communion,\u201d\u009d says Hood College historian David Hein, co-author of \u201cThe Episcopalians,\u201d\u009d a standard history of the church. \u201cThe American Episcopal Church is trying to set itself up as a separate denomination, although they would claim that they\u2019re not.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2012\/0711\/Episcopal-approval-of-same-sex-blessings-Will-it-hurt-church-s-global-ties\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the church to say, \u201d\u02dcThis is an active part of our life in ministry, and we support this,\u2019 is an extraordinarily important step,\u201d\u009d said the Very Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. \u201cIt<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33533\">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":[36,661,172,66,378,514,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-gen-con-2012","category-ecclesiology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33533","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=33533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}