{"id":7726,"date":"2008-08-03T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_mark_lawrence_gafcon_is_heir_apparent\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:43:56","slug":"bishop_mark_lawrence_gafcon_is_heir_apparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7726","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Mark Lawrence: GAFCON is Heir Apparent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Lawrence criticized the existing Instruments of Communion of being too slow to adapt. \u201cI witnessed a new birth last month [at GAFCON],\u201d\u009d Bishop Lawrence said. \u201cThe Global South has come to its place of maturity. I don\u2019t know how the two structures will work together in the future. Those who adapt the quickest will be the ones who win the day.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Zavala challenged Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to state clearly to the rest of the Communion the intentions of The Episcopal Church\u2019s House of Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to put words in her mouth,\u201d\u009d he said. Bishop Zavala said the current crisis is rooted in The Episcopal Church\u2019s decision to disregard Resolution 1.10 from the 1998 Lambeth Conference and consecrate a partnered homosexual person as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is no moratorium then the Communion will split,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/news\/news-updates\/2008\/8\/3\/gafcon-i\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Lawrence criticized the existing Instruments of Communion of being too slow to adapt. \u201cI witnessed a new birth last month [at GAFCON],\u201d\u009d Bishop Lawrence said. \u201cThe Global South has come to its place of maturity. I don\u2019t know how<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7726\">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":[36,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-lambeth-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726","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=7726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}