{"id":48897,"date":"2015-03-17T22:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T22:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/get_religion_heres_a_hot_story_many_have_missed_cost_of_those_91_episcopal_\/"},"modified":"2015-03-17T22:59:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T22:59:47","slug":"get_religion_heres_a_hot_story_many_have_missed_cost_of_those_91_episcopal_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48897","title":{"rendered":"(Get Religion) Here\u2019s a hot story many have missed: Cost of those 91 Episcopal Church lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a news story drags on bit by bit, piece by piece, over the years and becomes so tedious that reporters miss the dramatic cumulative impact. It also doesn&#8217;t help that long, slow-developing, nuanced religion stories have been known to turn secular editors into pillars of salt.<\/p>\n<p>So it seems with the lawsuits against conservative congregations and regional dioceses that have been quitting the Episcopal Church, mostly to join the Anglican Church in North America, especially since consecration of the first openly partnered gay bishop in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The Religion Guy confesses he totally missed the eye-popping claim last year that the denomination has spent more than $40 million on lawsuits to win ownership of the dropouts\u2019 buildings, properties, and liquid assets. If that\u2019s anywhere near accurate it surely sets the all-time record for American schisms. And that doesn\u2019t even count the millions come-outers have spent on lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2015\/3\/15\/heres-a-hot-story-many-have-missed-cost-of-those-91-episcopal-church-lawsuits\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a news story drags on bit by bit, piece by piece, over the years and becomes so tedious that reporters miss the dramatic cumulative impact. It also doesn&#8217;t help that long, slow-developing, nuanced religion stories have been known to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48897\">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":[36,48,39,175,66,168,114,89,184,373,108,441,372,376,647,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-media","category-parish-ministry","category-presiding-bishop","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48897","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=48897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}