{"id":46420,"date":"2014-10-17T22:21:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T22:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_post_episcopal_church_still_counting_breakaway_diocese_in_members\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T22:21:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T22:21:48","slug":"christian_post_episcopal_church_still_counting_breakaway_diocese_in_members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46420","title":{"rendered":"[Christian Post] Episcopal Church Still Counting withdrawn Diocese in Membership Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When The Episcopal Church recently released its statistics on membership among its dioceses for 2013, the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina was listed along with the others.<\/p>\n<p>There is one problem, however: the South Carolina Diocese&#8217;s leadership voted to leave the denomination back in 2012, taking most of the members and congregations with them..<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n&#8220;TECSC is no doubt seeking to avoid a painful public reporting of their diminished numbers,&#8221; said Walton of IRD to CP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This failure to report accurate membership figures calls into question the trustworthiness of congregational reporting within The Episcopal Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/episcopal-church-still-counting-breakaway-diocese-in-membership-numbers-128198\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When The Episcopal Church recently released its statistics on membership among its dioceses for 2013, the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina was listed along with the others. There is one problem, however: the South Carolina Diocese&#8217;s leadership voted to leave<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46420\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,376,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46420","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}