{"id":38653,"date":"2013-06-10T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T21:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_times-union_article_on_a_proposed_procedural_change_in_episcopal_election\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T21:16:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T21:16:29","slug":"a_times-union_article_on_a_proposed_procedural_change_in_episcopal_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38653","title":{"rendered":"A Times-Union article on a Proposed procedural Change in Episcopal Elections in TEC&#39;s Albany Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative Albany Episcopal Diocese is poised to change the way it elects its bishop in a move that is opposed by liberals.<\/p>\n<p>How the bishop is chosen has become a debate about democracy locally in a mainline denomination known for making its decisions democratically.<\/p>\n<p>A proposed rule change would eliminate a special Profile and Search Committee that seeks candidates in the diocese and from the national church and conducts a vetting process. Instead, the diocese&#8217;s Standing Committee, which advises the bishop, would administer the process relying on nominations from within the diocese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Vote-rule-clash-in-church-4587466.php#ixzz2Vm0vX2uw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative Albany Episcopal Diocese is poised to change the way it elects its bishop in a move that is opposed by liberals. How the bishop is chosen has become a debate about democracy locally in a mainline denomination known<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38653\">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":[36,66,168,372,379,371,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-tec-polity-canons","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38653","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=38653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}