{"id":44353,"date":"2014-05-30T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/3_other_key_stand_firm_leaders_respond_to_greg_griffiths_decision_to_become\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:00:03","slug":"3_other_key_stand_firm_leaders_respond_to_greg_griffiths_decision_to_become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44353","title":{"rendered":"3 other Key Stand Firm Leaders respond to Greg Griffith&#39;s Decision to Become a Roman Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> We respect and love Greg dearly. We recognize all too well the emotions and felt needs that led him to seek peace for his family, and a stable church situation. Those of us with children recognize the need to avoid non-Christian expressions of false gospels, as are found among so many leaders of The Episcopal Church; we also recognize the desire to find a sane and functional entity to join, and grant that currently Roman Catholicism provides structures that are sane and functional even as Anglican entities in the US do not. Those of us in Episcopal dioceses led by bishops who do not share the same faith also recognize the deep division that exists between layperson and clergy or bishop when the two do not share the same faith or preach the same gospel; it is a very challenging place to be as an Anglican.<\/p>\n<p>Greg\u2019s heartfelt statement of explanation as to how he came to make such a decision is a devastating indictment both on his former Episcopal bishop, Duncan Gray, as well as on conservative Anglicans throughout the US&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standfirminfaith.com\/?\/sf\/page\/31337\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We respect and love Greg dearly. We recognize all too well the emotions and felt needs that led him to seek peace for his family, and a stable church situation. Those of us with children recognize the need to avoid<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44353\">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":[36,39,42,63,94,101,172,168,98,89,154,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-ecclesiology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-media","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44353","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=44353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}