{"id":45732,"date":"2014-09-07T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/belfast_telegraph_why_no_individual_is_ever_greater_than_their_church\/"},"modified":"2014-09-07T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T00:00:40","slug":"belfast_telegraph_why_no_individual_is_ever_greater_than_their_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45732","title":{"rendered":"(Belfast Telegraph) Why no individual is ever greater than their Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s retirement of Pastor James McConnell after some 57 years in the Whitewell Ministries raises the question as to what happens to institutions once the main figure has gone&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In the Church of Ireland, a minister can stay in a parish as long as she or he desires, barring misbehaviour. However, an incumbent can be plucked out very quickly to higher office.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the moral of all this is to recognise the reality of life, retirement, frailty and death, and to conclude that, however big or small a leading Church figure may be in his or her day, no individual is bigger than the church itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/columnists\/alf-mccreary\/why-no-individual-is-ever-greater-than-their-church-30565342.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s retirement of Pastor James McConnell after some 57 years in the Whitewell Ministries raises the question as to what happens to institutions once the main figure has gone&#8230;. In the Church of Ireland, a minister can stay in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45732\">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":[36,48,74,409,172,435,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-ecclesiology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45732","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=45732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}