{"id":93123,"date":"2020-05-24T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93123"},"modified":"2020-05-24T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T21:34:45","slug":"star-telegram-tx-court-favors-classical-group-in-episcopal-church-fort-worth-area-property-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93123","title":{"rendered":"(Star-Telegram) TX court favors classical group in Episcopal Church Fort Worth-area property dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One group calling itself the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth<a href=\"https:\/\/episcopaldiocesefortworth.org\/assets\/TXSC-05222020-case-180438.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener noreferrer\"> has won a decisive legal battle<\/a> in a fight over which religious organization has control of church property.<\/p>\n<p>But whether the war is over between these two religious organizations, both of which claim the title of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, is still being decided.<\/p>\n<p>Both groups seek ownership of about $100 million in church property in a 24-county area&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/entertainment\/living\/religion\/article242938111.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s a win for local Anglican churches, with a legal team led by evangelical superstar lawyer Shelby Sharpe, Arlington lawyer David Weaver and former Texas Supreme Court Justice Scott Brister, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GMxcJULcwh\">https:\/\/t.co\/GMxcJULcwh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bud Kennedy \/ #ReadLocal (@BudKennedy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BudKennedy\/status\/1264219695693156352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One group calling itself the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has won a decisive legal battle in a fight over which religious organization has control of church property. But whether the war is over between these two religious organizations, both<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93123\">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":[168,114,184,108,441,655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-tec-conflicts-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93123","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=93123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93127,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93123\/revisions\/93127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}