{"id":55645,"date":"2016-09-13T20:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post-gazette_new_anglican_bishop_of_pittsburgh_is_consecrated\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T20:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:25:46","slug":"post-gazette_new_anglican_bishop_of_pittsburgh_is_consecrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55645","title":{"rendered":"(Post-Gazette) New Anglican bishop of Pittsburgh is consecrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Hobby acknowledges that the first time he ministered in Western Pennsylvania, as a pastor in two Episcopal parishes in the Mon Valley in the late 1980s, things didn\u2019t go very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was 29, so I was idealistic, zealous and pretty full of myself,\u201d\u009d the new Anglican bishop of Pittsburgh recalled last week in an interview. His preaching reflected the scholarship that earned him good grades in seminary, but he laments failing to connect with the blue-collar culture of his parishioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFolks are not really interested in how much I know,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cIf they don\u2019t feel loved and respected and cared for, the bridge for the gospel is pretty shaky.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/region\/2016\/09\/11\/New-Anglican-bishop-of-Pittsburgh-is-consecrated\/stories\/201609110082\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hobby acknowledges that the first time he ministered in Western Pennsylvania, as a pastor in two Episcopal parishes in the Mon Valley in the late 1980s, things didn\u2019t go very well. \u201cI was 29, so I was idealistic, zealous<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55645\">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":[36,48,63,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55645","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=55645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}