{"id":97660,"date":"2020-12-16T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97660"},"modified":"2020-12-16T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T11:00:17","slug":"je-virginia-tec-diocese-signals-truro-anglican-sale-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97660","title":{"rendered":"(JE) Virginia TEC Diocese Signals Truro Anglican Sale is Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Episcopal Diocese of Virginia officials have announced that diocesan leadership initiated \u201cconfidential conversations\u201d in late 2019 with representatives of <a href=\"http:\/\/truroanglican.com\/\">Truro Anglican Church<\/a> in suburban Washington about the future of the property, with a potential sale possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe discussions have been productive and are expected to continue,\u201d the diocese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thediocese.net\/news\/an-update-on-the-truro-church-lease\/\">shared in a December 6 press release<\/a> on its website. A member of the Truro congregation confirmed to me that the diocesan release \u201cis substantially correct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve reached out to Truro\u2019s vestry wardens and will update this blog entry as I receive their responses. Truro staff confirmed that a verbal announcement was read aloud to the congregation during a parish meeting but that no written or public statement was released.<\/p>\n<p>Anglican Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic Canon for Congregation and Clergy Care the Rev. Mary Maggard Hays noted that ongoing negotiations with the Diocese of Virginia are still confidential, but characterized them as \u201camicable and thoughtful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That assessment is similarly held by Episcopalians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2020\/12\/11\/episcopal-truro-anglican-sale-possible\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episcopal Diocese of Virginia officials have announced that diocesan leadership initiated \u201cconfidential conversations\u201d in late 2019 with representatives of Truro Anglican Church in suburban Washington about the future of the property, with a potential sale possible. \u201cThe discussions have been<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97660\">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":[63,168,600,114,441,642,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-stewardship","category-tec-conflicts-virginia","category-tec-departing-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97660","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=97660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97663,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97660\/revisions\/97663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}