{"id":881,"date":"2015-09-16T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2015-09-16T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:19:55","slug":"falls-church-episcopal-rebuilds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Falls Church Episcopal rebuilds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-882\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/101-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/101-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/101-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/101-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. John Ohmer, Rector of The Falls Church Episcopal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the Rev. John Ohmer was named rector of the Falls Church Episcopal\u00a0in September 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/rector-of-episcopal-church-reflects-on-rebuilding\/2015\/09\/15\/ce3c1e26-5bb9-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>he faced the challenge of rebuilding a historic church<\/strong><\/a> that had lost most of its membership in a split with conservatives, primarily over the issue of ordaining openly gay clergy.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2006 and early 2007, more than 90\u00a0percent of the 2,200 members of the church \u2014 which dates to Colonial times \u2014 voted to leave the Episcopal church and form the Falls Church Anglican.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/rector-of-episcopal-church-reflects-on-rebuilding\/2015\/09\/15\/ce3c1e26-5bb9-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>More&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, September 16, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Rev. John Ohmer was named rector of the Falls Church Episcopal\u00a0in September 2012, he faced the challenge of rebuilding a historic church that had lost most of its membership in a split with conservatives, primarily over the issue of ordaining openly gay clergy. In late 2006 and early 2007, more than 90\u00a0percent of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=881\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Falls Church Episcopal rebuilds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44,124,122,10,60],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-church","tag-fairfax-county","tag-falls-church","tag-history","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}