{"id":11955,"date":"2009-03-28T19:14:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_of_rochester_to_resign_a_decade_early\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:14:53","slug":"bishop_of_rochester_to_resign_a_decade_early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11955","title":{"rendered":"Bishop of Rochester to resign a decade early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Church of England&#8217;s most outspoken bishops has announced that he is to resign a decade early to devote the rest of his life to work with Christians in Islamic areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Church&#8217;s only Asian bishop, who is just 59 and could have stayed at Rochester until his 70th birthday, intends to use his expertise as an Islamic scholar to work in Pakistan where he was born and in the Middle East to build bridges between Christians and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>A conservative evangelical, he will step down in September after nearly 15 years in the diocese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article5991632.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Church of England&#8217;s most outspoken bishops has announced that he is to resign a decade early to devote the rest of his life to work with Christians in Islamic areas. The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11955\">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-11955","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\/11955","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=11955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}