{"id":65710,"date":"2017-11-25T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65710"},"modified":"2017-11-25T16:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T21:53:19","slug":"je-john-lomperis-not-much-centrism-in-uniting-methodists-agenda-on-sexual-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65710","title":{"rendered":"(JE) John Lomperis&#8211;Not much Centrism in \u201cUniting Methodists\u2019\u201d Agenda on Sexual Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of this to say, on the most prominent controversy within our denomination, this so-called \u201cMethodist middle\u201d group is actually exclusively aligned with one minority faction. As one of its leadership team members\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministrymatters.com\/all\/entry\/8265\/what-middle-am-i-in\">admitted<\/a>, \u201cClearly, I am not \u2018in the middle\u2019 or \u2018on the fence\u2019 with regard to this struggle which is threatening to split the United Methodist Church.\u201d The same is evidently true for all of this group\u2019s leaders, given the platform they all signed onto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2017\/11\/14\/not-much-centrism-uniting-methodists-agenda-sexual-morality\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of this to say, on the most prominent controversy within our denomination, this so-called \u201cMethodist middle\u201d group is actually exclusively aligned with one minority faction. As one of its leadership team members\u00a0admitted, \u201cClearly, I am not \u2018in the middle\u2019<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65710\">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":[360,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methodist","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65710","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=65710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65712,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65710\/revisions\/65712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}