{"id":39291,"date":"2013-07-30T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_bakersfield_episcopalians_celebrate_return_to_st-_pauls_with_message_of_\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T02:00:27","slug":"in_bakersfield_episcopalians_celebrate_return_to_st-_pauls_with_message_of_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39291","title":{"rendered":"In Bakersfield, Episcopalians celebrate return to St. Paul&#39;s with message of inclusiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing at the entrance to St. Paul&#8217;s Episcopal Church on 17th Street, the Rt. Rev. Chet Talton raised up the blunt end of a 6-foot-tall staff and pounded it against the door.<\/p>\n<p>Again he pounded with his crosier, and again, each time the knock resounding through the 160-strong gathering. From inside, the church warden greeted him, and after a brief exchange, Talton entered.<\/p>\n<p>So began a new era at St. Paul&#8217;s, itself the subject of a prolonged battle that, though settled at this congregation, continues to ripple through courtrooms across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com\/local\/x693652496\/Episcopalians-celebrate-return-to-St-Pauls-with-message-of-inclusiveness\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing at the entrance to St. Paul&#8217;s Episcopal Church on 17th Street, the Rt. Rev. Chet Talton raised up the blunt end of a 6-foot-tall staff and pounded it against the door. Again he pounded with his crosier, and again,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39291\">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":[36,39,172,66,114,177,372,376,658,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-ecclesiology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-san-joaquin","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291","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=39291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}