{"id":36606,"date":"2013-01-05T02:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T02:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_message_to_clergy_in_the_diocese_of_south_carolina_regarding_the_declarat\/"},"modified":"2013-01-05T02:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T02:44:20","slug":"a_message_to_clergy_in_the_diocese_of_south_carolina_regarding_the_declarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36606","title":{"rendered":"A Message to Clergy in the Diocese of South Carolina Regarding the Declaratory Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 4, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>By now you are aware that today the Diocese of South Carolina, the Trustees of the Diocese and congregations representing the vast majority of its baptized members filed suit in South Carolina Circuit Court against The Episcopal Church to protect the Diocese\u2019s real and personal property and that of its parishes.<\/p>\n<p>We have developed a number of background resources you may find helpful in explaining this situation to your parish. These items include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A letter from Bishop Lawrence &#8211; in the form of a bulletin insert<br \/>\n    Stewardship of the Gospel &#8211; Stewardship of the Diocese (a theological reflection)<br \/>\n    A Media Release<br \/>\n    List of Plaintiffs Participating<br \/>\n    Glossary of Terms<br \/>\n    Timeline of Events<br \/>\n    Letters of Support\/Articles of Interest<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These may all be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diosc.com\/sys\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=490:lawsuit-background-information&#038;catid=152:recent-events&#038;Itemid=176\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact me.<\/p>\n<p>In Christ&#8217;s service,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;(The Rev. Canon) Jim Lewis is Canon to the Ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 4, 2013 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, By now you are aware that today the Diocese of South Carolina, the Trustees of the Diocese and congregations representing the vast majority of its baptized members filed suit in South<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36606\">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":[36,48,39,54,66,114,435,184,376,646,371,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina","category-tec-polity-canons","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36606","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=36606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}