{"id":4383,"date":"2008-02-02T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bis\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T21:28:00","slug":"the_bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4383","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Central Florida&#39;s Diocesan Convention Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who simply have to leave The Episcopal Church for conscience sake.  I understand that.  I don\u2019t agree, but I don\u2019t believe we should punish them.  We shouldn\u2019t sue them.  We shouldn\u2019t depose the clergy.  Our brokenness is a tragedy.  The litigation that is going on in so many places is a travesty.<\/p>\n<p>And although some seem to be trying to do so, I don\u2019t think you can hold a Church together by taking everybody you disagree with to court.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago I stood before you and said, \u201cThis is my promise: if there are those who decide to leave I will be more fair-minded and generous to them than any policy that could possibly be established.  And I don\u2019t have to ask you to believe that; I\u2019ve proven it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Well, Dear Friends, we have proven it, again (and again, several times).  As I promised we would, we have said to those leaving, \u201cGo in peace to love and serve the Lord.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>You all know that personally I am no happier than those who are departing about some of the recent decisions of The Episcopal Church.  But I am committed to staying the course for as long as it is possible to remain both an Episcopalian and an Anglican.  And the Archbishop of Canterbury has given me, personally, and all the world, assurances&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/centralflorida.anglican.org\/news\/news08\/jwhconv08.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who simply have to leave The Episcopal Church for conscience sake. I understand that. I don\u2019t agree, but I don\u2019t believe we should punish them. We shouldn\u2019t sue them. We shouldn\u2019t depose the clergy. Our brokenness is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4383\">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":[36,66,372,376,657,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-central-florida","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","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=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}