{"id":33645,"date":"2012-07-19T22:56:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_state_talks_continue_as_potential_split_in_sc_episcopal_diocese_looms\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T22:56:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:56:36","slug":"the_state_talks_continue_as_potential_split_in_sc_episcopal_diocese_looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33645","title":{"rendered":"(The State) Talks continue as potential split in SC Episcopal diocese looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Midlands and Upstate Episcopalians said this week he remains in prayer and open talks with his fellow bishop in the Lowcountry in hopes of staving off a fracture within the state and the national church over gender issues.<\/p>\n<p>The national church earlier this month approved a same-sex blessing rite and expanded ordination to include transgendered persons.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop W. Andrew Waldo has tried to keep his diverse Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina unified despite theological differences over the controversial issues. He said this week he hopes that his friend, Bishop Mark J. Lawrence, leader of the more conservative and traditional Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, in the Lowcountry, will remain on that same path.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/07\/19\/2359601\/2-sc-episcopal-bishops-remain.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Midlands and Upstate Episcopalians said this week he remains in prayer and open talks with his fellow bishop in the Lowcountry in hopes of staving off a fracture within the state and the national church over gender<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33645\">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":[36,54,661,175,66,168,378,514,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-south-carolina","category-gen-con-2012","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-general-convention","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33645","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=33645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}