{"id":291,"date":"2004-10-26T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2004-10-26T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T22:15:00","slug":"291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Idol-worshiping Episcopalians<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christianity Today reacts<\/a> to Pagan aspects of an Episcopal Church experiment with women’s liturgy. Other conservative Christian bloggers chime in: check out the “comments” section of this blog<\/a>. The ordination of women led to “sexual narcissism,” you see.<\/p>\n

It’s been a long time–like 40 or 50 years–since the Episcopal Church was humorously referred to as “the Republican Party at prayer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Idol-worshiping Episcopalians Christianity Today reacts to Pagan aspects of an Episcopal Church experiment with women’s liturgy. Other conservative Christian bloggers chime in: check out the “comments” section of this blog. The ordination of women led to “sexual narcissism,” you see. It’s been a long time–like 40 or 50 years–since the Episcopal Church was humorously referred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-291","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":411,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=411","url_meta":{"origin":291,"position":0},"title":"Episcopalians and Druids, cont.The saga\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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