{"id":33910,"date":"2012-08-06T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/moultrie_georgia_observer_st-_johns_leaves_episcopal_church_over_theologica\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:30:11","slug":"moultrie_georgia_observer_st-_johns_leaves_episcopal_church_over_theologica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33910","title":{"rendered":"(Moultrie, Georgia, Observer) St. John&#39;s leaves Episcopal Church over theological rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement to his congregation on Sunday, July 29, Fr. McQueen stated that he can no longer remain in the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia due to serious theological differences with the diocese and national Episcopal Church. He invited all who were \u201cwilling to make a stand for the historic Christian faith\u201d\u009d to join him in stepping out in faith to form a new church, St. Mark\u2019s Anglican Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had reached a point for me personally where I believed that my adherence to the traditional, historic, catholic faith in a number of matters had been so compromised that I could not stay in the Episcopal Church. Though it is painful to leave the denomination in which I was baptized, confirmed, married, and ordained, I have no reservations about leaving. I firmly believe that God has been preparing me for this very day for a long time,\u201d\u009d said Fr. McQueen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moultrieobserver.com\/local\/x44821459\/St-Johns-leaves-Episcopal-Church-over-theological-rift\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement to his congregation on Sunday, July 29, Fr. McQueen stated that he can no longer remain in the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia due to serious theological differences with the diocese and national Episcopal Church. He invited all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33910\">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":[36,661,66,378,376,654,647,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-gen-con-2012","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-georgia","category-tec-departing-parishes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33910","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=33910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}