{"id":11225,"date":"2009-02-12T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/is_it_now_time_for_women_to_be_bishops_nancy_eckersley_and_george_austin_of\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:21:24","slug":"is_it_now_time_for_women_to_be_bishops_nancy_eckersley_and_george_austin_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11225","title":{"rendered":"Is it now time for women to be bishops? Nancy Eckersley and George Austin Offer some Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ordination of women bishops has moved a step nearer after the Church of England\u2019s General Synod voted to send draft legislation and a code of practice for further discussion.<\/p>\n<p>But the two-hour debate yesterday once again revealed deep rifts in the church.<\/p>\n<p>Anglicans opposed to women bishops have threatened to leave the church if adequate safeguards are not put in place to cater for them.<\/p>\n<p>The compromise package being proposed is understood to include so-called \u201ccomplementary bishops\u201d\u009d who would minister to parishes which object to women bishops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepress.co.uk\/news\/analysis\/4120682.Is_it_now_time_for_women_to_be_bishops_\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ordination of women bishops has moved a step nearer after the Church of England\u2019s General Synod voted to send draft legislation and a code of practice for further discussion. But the two-hour debate yesterday once again revealed deep rifts<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11225\">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":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225","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=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}