{"id":39372,"date":"2013-08-04T00:11:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T00:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/columbus_dispatch_st-_matthews_episcopal_must_sell_church_after_split\/"},"modified":"2013-08-04T00:11:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T00:11:55","slug":"columbus_dispatch_st-_matthews_episcopal_must_sell_church_after_split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39372","title":{"rendered":"(Columbus Dispatch) St. Matthew\u2019s Episcopal must sell church after split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Westerville congregation that lost about two-thirds of its members in 2007 after a rift within the Episcopal Church is selling its building and worshipping in a temporary space as it tries to redefine itself as \u201ca church without walls,\u201d\u009d its presiding priest said this week.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cFor Sale\u201d\u009d is posted in front of the 23,995-square-foot St. Matthew\u2019s Episcopal Church at 233 S. State St., where congregants held their final service on July 7. Their first service in borrowed space at a respite-care center drew about 100 people the following week, said the Rev. Joseph Kovitch, who oversees the congregation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/faith_and_values\/2013\/08\/02\/st--matthews-episcopal-must-sell-church-after-split.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Westerville congregation that lost about two-thirds of its members in 2007 after a rift within the Episcopal Church is selling its building and worshipping in a temporary space as it tries to redefine itself as \u201ca church without walls,\u201d\u009d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39372\">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":[36,66,376,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39372","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=39372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}