{"id":36834,"date":"2013-01-18T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/saint_pauls_summerville_s-c-_joins_suit_against_episcopal_church\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:15:08","slug":"saint_pauls_summerville_s-c-_joins_suit_against_episcopal_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36834","title":{"rendered":"Saint Paul&#39;s, Summerville, S.C., joins suit against Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October, after more than two centuries as a founding member of the national Episcopal Church, the Diocese of South Carolina disaffiliated itself from the national church after the national church charged Bishop Mark Lawrence with abandonment.<br \/>\nSt. Paul\u2019s decided to remain with the Diocese of South Carolina.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have been anticipating the possibility of this for at least the past year and a half,\u201d\u009d [Mike] Lumpkin said.<br \/>\nHe said there were full congregational meetings in December 2011 and then in the spring of 2012 to keep parishioners apprised as the drama ramped up.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are less and less comfortable with what the Episcopal Church holds up as authoritative,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalscene.com\/article\/20130117\/SJ01\/130119875\/1178\/st-paul-8217-s-joins-suit-against-episcopal-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October, after more than two centuries as a founding member of the national Episcopal Church, the Diocese of South Carolina disaffiliated itself from the national church after the national church charged Bishop Mark Lawrence with abandonment. St. Paul\u2019s decided<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36834\">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":[36,39,54,66,168,114,177,108,376,646,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36834","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=36834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}