{"id":50729,"date":"2015-07-10T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/shns_terry_mattingly-triumphant_day_for_the_episcopal_church_establishment\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:40:13","slug":"shns_terry_mattingly-triumphant_day_for_the_episcopal_church_establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50729","title":{"rendered":"(SHNS) Terry Mattingly&#8211;Triumphant Day for the Episcopal Church Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Bishop William White of Philadelphia became a bishop in 1787, he was No. 2 in the Episcopal Church&#8217;s chain of apostolic succession.<\/p>\n<p>When Bishop V. Gene Robinson was consecrated in 2003 &#8212; the first openly gay, noncelibate Episcopal bishop &#8212; he was No. 993. This fact was more than a trivia-game answer during a recent sermon that represented a triumphant moment both for Robinson and his church&#8217;s liberal establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Standing on White&#8217;s grave before the altar of historic Christ Church, the former New Hampshire bishop quipped that he did &#8220;feel a little rumble&#8221; when he referenced the recent Episcopal votes to approve same-sex marriage rites. But Robinson was convinced White was not rolling over in his grave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uexpress.com\/on-religion\/2015\/7\/8\/triumphant-day-for-the-episcopal-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Bishop William White of Philadelphia became a bishop in 1787, he was No. 2 in the Episcopal Church&#8217;s chain of apostolic succession. When Bishop V. Gene Robinson was consecrated in 2003 &#8212; the first openly gay, noncelibate Episcopal bishop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50729\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,576,209,175,186,66,168,133,98,435,184,177,151,129,112,372,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-tec-bishops","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50729","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=50729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}