{"id":73069,"date":"2018-07-18T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73069"},"modified":"2018-07-18T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:11","slug":"wash-post-the-episcopal-church-tec-will-revise-its-beloved-prayer-book-but-doesnt-know-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73069","title":{"rendered":"(Wash Post) The Episcopal Church (TEC) will revise its beloved prayer book but doesn\u2019t know when"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The church has already authorized many alternate texts, which churches can use as supplements to the Book of Common Prayer, with gender-neutral language. To address the strong demand at the conference for the lessening of male imagery for God in Episcopal services, the conference authorized more of those texts and voted to make them more widely available.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, priests needed the approval of their bishops to use the supplemental texts; now, any priest can choose to use them, [the Rev. Ruth] Meyers said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2018\/07\/18\/the-episcopal-church-will-revise-its-beloved-prayer-book-but-doesnt-know-when\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church has already authorized many alternate texts, which churches can use as supplements to the Book of Common Prayer, with gender-neutral language. To address the strong demand at the conference for the lessening of male imagery for God in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73069\">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":[432,66,378,183,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-common-prayer","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73069","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=73069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73070,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73069\/revisions\/73070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}