{"id":5584,"date":"2008-04-10T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_michigan_one_episcopal_parish_celebrates_its_roots\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T19:11:00","slug":"in_michigan_one_episcopal_parish_celebrates_its_roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5584","title":{"rendered":"In Michigan one Episcopal Parish Celebrates its Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the special celebration of the Holy Eucharist and seeing new and old faces,\u201d\u009d Whiting said. \u201cThe whole day will be kind of fun.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>As the congregation looks back on its long history, Whiting said it also looks to the future and potential outreach programs. The church is currently working towards various projects including a literacy education program and a community closet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Episcopal church, I think, is a wonderful blend of Catholicism and Protestant,\u201d\u009d Whiting said. \u201cWe allow people to make up their own minds about just about everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Episcopal church is very inclusive in terms of color, sexual identity and alternative lifestyles. One of the things we are going to work on is making this a safe haven for GLBT people.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allegannews.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/10\/local_news\/09.txt\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the special celebration of the Holy Eucharist and seeing new and old faces,\u201d\u009d Whiting said. \u201cThe whole day will be kind of fun.\u201d\u009d As the congregation looks back on its long history, Whiting said it also<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5584\">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":[36,48,186,66,184,376,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","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=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}