{"id":663,"date":"2006-06-21T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/06\/21\/stanford-grads-in-unexpected-places\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T06:42:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:42:27","slug":"stanford-grads-in-unexpected-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/21\/stanford-grads-in-unexpected-places","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Grads In Unexpected Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone raised Episcopalian I tend to feel sorrow whenever I read about the Episcopal church in the news. The global Anglican communion is doing okay, but the American denomination has really jumped the tracks since I was&nbsp;born.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven\u2019t heard, the Episcopal Church in America just elected its first female primate ever \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katharine_Jefferts_Schori\">Katharine Jefferts Schori<\/a>. That\u2019s not the source of my sorrow \u2014 I firmly believe in the ministry of women (<a href=\"http:\/\/ag.org\/top\/Beliefs\/Position_Papers\/pp_4191_women_ministry.cfm\">as does my denomination<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where the sorrow comes in: she\u2019s apparently an advocate of ordaining openly gay priests and bishops. So her election was sort of a slap in the face to the worldwide Anglican communion, a significant portion of which seems prepared to write <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ichabod\">Ichabod<\/a> over the door of the Episcopalian church.<\/p>\n<p>After the usual sigh that escapes my lips when seeing the Episcopal church in the headlines, one detail leapt out at me: Bishop Schori graduated with a degree in biology from Stanford in 1974. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/purgatorio1.com\/\">purgatorio<\/a> for putting that information <a href=\"http:\/\/purgatorio1.com\/?p=435\">where it caught my eye<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those darn Stanford alumni\u2013they just keep showing up in the news. Sometimes for good and sometimes for bad, but always making a difference.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelonian.org?you_don_t_mess_with_the_zohan\">download you don t mess with the&nbsp;zohan<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone raised Episcopalian I tend to feel sorrow whenever I read about the Episcopal church in the news. The global Anglican communion is doing okay, but the American denomination has really jumped the tracks since I was&nbsp;born.&nbsp; In case you haven\u2019t heard, the Episcopal Church in America just elected its first female primate ever \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/21\/stanford-grads-in-unexpected-places\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cStanford Grads In Unexpected Places\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}