{"id":6126,"date":"2020-10-25T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2020-10-26T07:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:08:22","slug":"episcopal-church-marriages-plunge-by-two-thirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Church Marriages Plunge by Two Thirds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wonder if any ELCAers have buyer\u2019s remorse, having bought into <em>Called to Common Mission<\/em>in 1999. This agreement with the Episcopal Church <strong>required the ELCA to<\/strong> <strong>change its constitution<\/strong> and gradually adopt an Episcopal structure. After all, <strong>sacramental bishops, priests, and deacons<\/strong> require miters, pectoral crosses, stoles, ceremonies, rules, and regulations that show their special powers and <strong>distinguish their ranks.<\/strong> Worry about marriage and the family? Why bother? And yet, who will pay for all the clergy?<\/p>\n\n\n\nRead more from <a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2020\/10\/23\/episcopal-church-marriages\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juicy Ecumenism here<\/a>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder if any ELCAers have buyer\u2019s remorse, having bought into <em>Called to Common Mission<\/em> in 1999. This agreement with the Episcopal Church <strong>required the ELCA to<\/strong> <strong>change its constitution<\/strong> and gradually adopt an Episcopal structure. After all, <strong>sacramental bishops, priests, and deacons<\/strong> require miters, pectoral crosses, stoles, ceremonies, rules, and regulations that show their special powers and <strong>distinguish their ranks.<\/strong> Worry about marriage and the family? Why bother? And yet, who will pay for all the clergy?<\/p>\n<p>Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2020\/10\/23\/episcopal-church-marriages\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juicy Ecumenism here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecumenism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6138,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}