{"id":11244,"date":"2009-02-13T18:17:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_anglicans_called_on_to_convert_non_christian_believers\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T18:17:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:17:19","slug":"london_times_anglicans_called_on_to_convert_non_christian_believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11244","title":{"rendered":"(London) Times: Anglicans called on to convert non-Christian believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglicans were commanded to \u201cgo forth and evangelise\u201d\u009d yesterday in a dramatic assertion of missionary fervour that could jeopardise carefully built-up relations with Muslims, Jews and other faiths.<\/p>\n<p>The established Church of England put decades of liberal-inspired political correctness behind it in a move that led one bishop to condemn in anger the \u201cevangelistic rants\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>For Muslims, to convert to another religion is condemned as apostasy.<\/p>\n<p>The Church\u2019s General Synod, meeting in London, overwhelmingly backed a motion to force its bishops to report on their \u201cunderstanding of the uniqueness of Christ in Britain\u2019s multifaith society\u201d\u009d and offer guidance in sharing \u201cthe gospel of salvation\u201d\u009d with people of other faiths and none.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article5711595.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglicans were commanded to \u201cgo forth and evangelise\u201d\u009d yesterday in a dramatic assertion of missionary fervour that could jeopardise carefully built-up relations with Muslims, Jews and other faiths. The established Church of England put decades of liberal-inspired political correctness behind<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11244\">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":[36,48,74,162,389,440,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-christology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244","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=11244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}