{"id":37642,"date":"2013-04-04T01:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jeff_walton-bishop_spongs_good_friday_visit_to_the_diocese_of_virginia\/"},"modified":"2013-04-04T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:01:40","slug":"jeff_walton-bishop_spongs_good_friday_visit_to_the_diocese_of_virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37642","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Walton&#8211;Bishop Spong\u2019s Good Friday Visit to the Diocese of Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a month after sponsoring an event for Virginia Episcopal clergy featuring a speaker who denies both the afterlife and unique divinity of Christ, Bishop Shannon Johnston of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has presided over a service featuring a similarly controversial figure.<\/p>\n<p>In a Good Friday service at historic St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church in Richmond, retired Bishop John Shelby Spong decried the Nicene Creed as \u201ca radical distortion of the Gospel of John,\u201d\u009d asserted that several of the apostles were \u201cmythological\u201d\u009d and declared that Jesus Christ did not die to redeem humanity from its sins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2013\/04\/02\/bishop-spongs-non-literal-good-friday\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a month after sponsoring an event for Virginia Episcopal clergy featuring a speaker who denies both the afterlife and unique divinity of Christ, Bishop Shannon Johnston of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has presided over a service featuring<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37642\">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":[36,48,175,162,187,66,570,164,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anthropology","category-christology","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-holy-week","category-soteriology","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37642","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=37642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}