{"id":9270,"date":"2008-10-28T01:22:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T01:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/missouri_episcopal_churchs_first_female_senior_rector_brings_a_fresh_perspe\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T01:22:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T01:22:27","slug":"missouri_episcopal_churchs_first_female_senior_rector_brings_a_fresh_perspe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9270","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Episcopal Church&#39;s first female senior rector brings a fresh perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robinson brings unique experiences as an Irish priest and educator to her role at Calvary. Until her late 30s, she served as an educator in England and this experience informs her role as priest.<\/p>\n<p>She brings to her role a love of teaching and learning as well as an understanding that those things are mutual. She wants to be actively involved in teaching and learning with both adults and children.<\/p>\n<p>Calvary member Alison Martin, the mother of two school-aged children, speaks enthusiastically about how Robinson\u2019s gift of education is obvious. \u201cWatching her interact with children is amazing to me. The way she talks to them about God and Jesus makes me feel so wonderful,\u201d\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her childhood and adult life, Robinson was active in the church. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, she calls herself a \u201ccradle Episcopalian.\u201d\u009d However, she did not decide to become a priest until her late 30s. It was about this time that the church allowed the ordination of women.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/stories\/2008\/10\/17\/paula-robinson-calvary-epsicopals-first-female-rector-and-more\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robinson brings unique experiences as an Irish priest and educator to her role at Calvary. Until her late 30s, she served as an educator in England and this experience informs her role as priest. She brings to her role a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9270\">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":[36,48,66,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270","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=9270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}