{"id":230,"date":"2004-02-04T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2004\/02\/04\/bishop-supports-continuing-dialogue-and-theological-diversity-in-his-diocese"},"modified":"2004-02-04T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T11:56:00","slug":"bishop-supports-continuing-dialogue-and-theological-diversity-in-his-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/bishop-supports-continuing-dialogue-and-theological-diversity-in-his-diocese.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop supports continuing dialogue and theological diversity in his diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.agapepress.org\/archive\/2\/32004h.asp\">in a manner of speaking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;A 157-year-old Episcopal church is nearly empty on Sundays now that its conservative members have broken off to form a new congregation. Historic St. John&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Versailles, Kentucky, drew only 60 people to its three services this past Sunday. <b><i>Most of its members left after diocesan leaders fired the church&#8217;s entire governing board, which had denounced Bishop Stacy Sauls&#8217; support for the consecration of the openly homosexual Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire<\/i><\/b>. Days after the firings, conservative members of St. John&#8217;s voted to form a new church and contributed $40,000 in seed money. They met informally in a supporter&#8217;s living room for three weeks and had their first formal worship service Sunday with a new pastor. [AP]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to &#8220;support for diversity&#8221; and &#8220;continuing to dialogue on this divisive issue&#8221;, Episcopalian-style.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: Diversity will only be achieved when all think alike.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/markshea.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_markshea_archive.html#107585618833626264\">Mark Shea<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in a manner of speaking: &#8230;A 157-year-old Episcopal church is nearly empty on Sundays now that its conservative members have broken off to form a new congregation. Historic St. John&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Versailles, Kentucky, drew only 60 people to its three services this past Sunday. Most of its members left after diocesan leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episcopal-church"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}