{"id":38691,"date":"2013-06-13T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_churches_to_quit_the_kirk_over_ordination_of_ministers_in_same\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:30:39","slug":"london_times_churches_to_quit_the_kirk_over_ordination_of_ministers_in_same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38691","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Churches to quit the Kirk over ordination of ministers in same sex relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland was last night bracing itself for the departure of up to a dozen well-heeled congregations over the issue of the ordination of gay ministers.<br \/>\nThree new congregations have indicated that they will quit the Kirk in the first signs of division to emerge since the vote to allow gay ministers.<br \/>\nNew Restalrig Parish Church, St Catherine\u2019s Argyle Parish Church and Holyrood Abbey Church in Edinburgh are in the process of negotiating a depart<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article3788920.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland was last night bracing itself for the departure of up to a dozen well-heeled congregations over the issue of the ordination of gay ministers. Three new congregations have indicated that they will quit the Kirk in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38691\">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":[48,50,42,175,199,168,154,184,417,326,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-scotland","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38691","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=38691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}