{"id":7042,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-shock-of-his-entire-christian-life\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","slug":"the-shock-of-his-entire-christian-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-shock-of-his-entire-christian-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shock of His Entire Christian Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican bishop Alexander &#8216;Muge of Kenya was to preach in church in California but remarked to the pastor that &#8220;homosexuals and lesbians have taken over the church leadership.&#8221;  Both the pastor and a female parishioner there said they were gay.  He was not allowed to speak in the church.  At a press conference &#8216;Muge called the incident &#8220;the shock of my entire Christian life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican bishop Alexander &#8216;Muge of Kenya was to preach in church in California but remarked to the pastor that &#8220;homosexuals and lesbians have taken over the church leadership.&#8221; Both the pastor and a female parishioner there said they were gay. He was not allowed to speak in the church. At a press conference &#8216;Muge called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1554,594],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}