{"id":61198,"date":"2017-07-06T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61198"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T23:25:04","slug":"ec-george-clifford-the-1979-book-of-common-prayer-needs-revision-is-it-time-for-an-electronic-prayer-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61198","title":{"rendered":"(EC) George Clifford&#8211;The 1979 Book of Common Prayer needs revision&#8211;is it time for an electronic prayer book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1979 Book of Common Prayer badly needs revision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is sexist, e.g., in its presumption that clergy and God are male;<br \/>\nIt is exclusionary, e.g., the marriage rite is only for heterosexual couples;<br \/>\nIt is limited, as evidenced by the proliferation and popularity of authorized alternative liturgies.<br \/>\nOthers may add additional theological and liturgical reasons to that list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Also] printing a revised Book of Common Prayer is inadvisable [for the following reasons]&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/for-such-a-time-as-this-an-electronic-prayer-book\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1979 Book of Common Prayer badly needs revision: It is sexist, e.g., in its presumption that clergy and God are male; It is exclusionary, e.g., the marriage rite is only for heterosexual couples; It is limited, as evidenced by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61198\">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":[432,175,162,66,168,177,173,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-common-prayer","category-anthropology","category-christology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61198","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=61198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61201,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61198\/revisions\/61201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}