{"id":52201,"date":"2015-11-02T03:11:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T03:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/w_post_episcopal_church_installs_its_first_african_american_presiding_bisho\/"},"modified":"2015-11-02T03:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T03:11:01","slug":"w_post_episcopal_church_installs_its_first_african_american_presiding_bisho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52201","title":{"rendered":"(W Post) Episcopal Church installs its first African American presiding bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public face and style of the Episcopal Church shifted Sunday with the installation of Michael Bruce Curry, the denomination\u2019s first African American spiritual leader.<\/p>\n<p>Curry, 62, a high-energy, evangelical pastor, is expected to bring a positive, Pope Francis-like vibe to a church community marked in recent years by shrinking numbers and legal disputes related to gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry! Be happy! God loves you!\u201d\u009d Curry boomed at the close of his sermon to the 2,500 people gathered in the soaring Washington National Cathedral. Preaching from the elevated Canterbury Pulpit, Curry immediately changed the face of Episcopalianism, historically one of the faiths of the nation\u2019s white elite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/social-issues\/episcopal-church-installs-its-first-african-american-bishop\/2015\/11\/01\/d9b7c44c-80d2-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public face and style of the Episcopal Church shifted Sunday with the installation of Michael Bruce Curry, the denomination\u2019s first African American spiritual leader. Curry, 62, a high-energy, evangelical pastor, is expected to bring a positive, Pope Francis-like vibe<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52201\">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":[36,66,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52201","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=52201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}