{"id":51062,"date":"2015-08-04T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tlc_great_episcopal_turmoil_in_newport_beach\/"},"modified":"2015-08-04T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T21:30:20","slug":"tlc_great_episcopal_turmoil_in_newport_beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51062","title":{"rendered":"(TLC) Great Episcopal Turmoil in Newport Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people of St. James the Great Church in Newport Beach, California, thought they had their bishop\u2019s long-term support when they moved into the building in October 2013, after the diocese\u2019s long-term property battle with former members who joined the Anglican Church in North America. He was at the ceremony and offered his blessing.<\/p>\n<p>But now they have no building because the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno signed a deal in May to sell it for $15 million to a luxury housing developer. They feel betrayed, and they are fighting back.<\/p>\n<p>In July church members filed a lengthy complaint, or presentment, against the bishop. It charges Bishop Bruno with 147 violations of church law, ranging from conduct unbecoming a bishop to reckless or intentional misrepresentation, under Title IV of church canons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livingchurch.org\/great-turmoil-newport-beach\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of St. James the Great Church in Newport Beach, California, thought they had their bishop\u2019s long-term support when they moved into the building in October 2013, after the diocese\u2019s long-term property battle with former members who joined the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51062\">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":[36,48,39,40,149,66,168,600,184,177,108,441,372,376,380,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-parishes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51062","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=51062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}