{"id":10478,"date":"2009-01-02T03:46:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_john_packer_says_church_could_survive_split_with_state\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T03:46:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:46:20","slug":"bishop_john_packer_says_church_could_survive_split_with_state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10478","title":{"rendered":"Bishop John Packer says Church \u201d\u02dccould survive split with state\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> THE Bishop of Ripon and Leeds has played down the significance of the Church of England being disestablished.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt Rev John Packer, whose sprawling diocese includes Leeds, Harrogate, Ripon and Richmond, is backing the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who contends that a separation would not be such a major step.<\/p>\n<p>The bishops\u2019 comments come after it was recently reported that Labour was pressing for a state split from the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk\/news\/4013832.Church____could_survive_split_with_state___\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Bishop of Ripon and Leeds has played down the significance of the Church of England being disestablished. The Rt Rev John Packer, whose sprawling diocese includes Leeds, Harrogate, Ripon and Richmond, is backing the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10478\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,74,389,635,199,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}