{"id":41,"date":"2015-01-13T02:37:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T02:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-01-15T02:19:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:19:01","slug":"another-traditionalist-church-plans-to-swing-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/another-traditionalist-church-plans-to-swing-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Traditionalist Church plans to swing left"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Living Church comes this sad news: \u00a0\u201cThe Rt. Rev. James Jelinek, interim rector of St. Paul\u2019s Parish<\/span><\/a>, K Street [in Washington, DC], since August 2013, has written about the parish entering a phase of discernment about women\u2019s ordination to the priesthood and same-sex marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Up until this time, \u201c\u2026in order to keep our focus on what unites us \u2014 the centrality of the Eucharist and our mission as the Body of Christ \u2014 we have tended to avoid addressing some critical issues, including the role of women clergy at St. Paul\u2019s and the blessing of same-sex unions\/marriages. During the current transition, we have begun to explore these questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think it is probably foregone how the discernments will conclude, and there is probably no stopping the progressive steamroller here as has been the case in other churches that have fallen. \u00a0Still, we should pray for this church and hope that they can keep that centrality of focus on Eucharist and mission to which they had\u00a0been holding up to this point.<\/p>\n

Read it all here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/changes-st-paul\u2019s-k-st<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the Living Church comes this sad news: \u00a0\u201cThe Rt. Rev. James Jelinek, interim rector of St. Paul\u2019s Parish, K Street [in Washington, DC], since August 2013, has written about the parish entering a phase of discernment about women\u2019s ordination to the priesthood and same-sex marriage.\u201d Up until this time, \u201c\u2026in order to keep our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[12,10,11,13,9],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressive-christianity","category-same-sex-marriage","tag-progressive-christianity","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-st-pauls-k-street","tag-the-living-church","tag-womens-ordination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}