{"id":119734,"date":"2023-03-27T17:14:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119734"},"modified":"2023-03-27T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:15:32","slug":"christian-today-evangelical-alliance-expects-more-anglican-churches-to-join-over-divisive-cofe-plan-to-bless-same-sex-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119734","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Evangelical Alliance expects more Anglican churches to join over divisive CofE plan to bless same-sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Evangelical Alliance, Gavin Calver, believes the organisation may see a growth in membership as the Church of England moves ahead with divisive plans to bless same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview for the Religion and Media Centre&#8217;s Big Interview podcast, Calver said it was &#8220;too early&#8221; for the EA to tell Anglican evangelical congregations what to do because the Church of England is still in the process of formulating new pastoral guidance on the blessings.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said that the EA was ready to be a place of support and a &#8220;port in a storm&#8221; for evangelical congregations dismayed over the Church of England&#8217;s direction of travel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll probably find that a number of Anglican churches join the Evangelical Alliance, because it&#8217;s actually a time where they want to be in unity with wider evangelicals, as well as continuing in their space, which is challenging,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/evangelical.alliance.expects.more.anglican.churches.to.join.over.cofe.gay.blessings\/140001.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Evangelical Alliance, Gavin Calver, believes the organisation may see a growth in membership as the Church of England moves ahead with divisive plans to bless same-sex couples. In an interview for the Religion and Media Centre&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119734\">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":[576,175,324,158,168,419,177,108,514,112,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england","category-ecumenical-relations","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119734","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=119734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119736,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119734\/revisions\/119736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}