{"id":624,"date":"2007-06-25T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopal_churchs_new_leader_tells_of_her_mission\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T20:03:00","slug":"episcopal_churchs_new_leader_tells_of_her_mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Church&#39;s new leader tells of her mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:<\/p>\n<p>So far, [Katharine Jefferts] Schori is speaking softly, but signaling that there may be a steel fist beneath the velvet glove.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by the national church, the Diocese of Virginia has launched legal action to regain property of the breakaway congregations.<\/p>\n<p>Schori said her approach is to act as the church&#8217;s chief pastor, keep dialogue going, and work toward &#8220;adaptive solutions&#8221; that will &#8220;hold us together&#8221; despite differences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the pastoral responses fail, and there are attempts to destroy the structure, the way you respond is the structural way, the canonical way,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When you get out the big guns, the pastoral solution has failed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, in the American way, the faithful may end up fighting it out in civil court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/connelly\/321119_joel25.html\" title=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/connelly\/321119_joel25.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: So far, [Katharine Jefferts] Schori is speaking softly, but signaling that there may be a steel fist beneath the velvet glove. Backed by the national church, the Diocese of Virginia has launched legal action to regain<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=624\">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":[36,39,66,114,373,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-presiding-bishop","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}