{"id":35890,"date":"2012-11-26T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post-gazette_the_rector_of_calvary_episcopal_church_in_pittsburgh_retires\/"},"modified":"2012-11-26T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T22:04:46","slug":"post-gazette_the_rector_of_calvary_episcopal_church_in_pittsburgh_retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35890","title":{"rendered":"(Post-Gazette) The Rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Rev. Harold T. Lewis became rector of the mostly white and wealthy Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside in 1996, the city was reeling from racial turmoil, and Father Lewis, who is African-American, was expected to be a leader in addressing social injustice.<br \/>\nBut circumstances have led him to retire as a renowned advocate for Episcopal canon law.<br \/>\nFive years before the 2008 schism in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, he filed a lawsuit to stop anyone from taking property out of the Episcopal Church.<br \/>\n&#8220;If you had asked me when I was ordained &#8230; if I would ever sue my bishop, I would have said you were crazy,&#8221; said Father Lewis, 65, who retired Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/life\/lifestyle\/rector-of-calvary-episcopal-in-pittsburgh-retires-663640\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Rev. Harold T. Lewis became rector of the mostly white and wealthy Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside in 1996, the city was reeling from racial turmoil, and Father Lewis, who is African-American, was expected to be a leader<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35890\">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":[36,48,66,435,184,376,638,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35890","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-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-pittsburgh","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35890","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=35890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}