{"id":119782,"date":"2023-03-29T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119782"},"modified":"2023-03-29T18:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T22:11:40","slug":"church-times-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119782","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) CEEC calls for declarations of resistance to same-sex blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC), a group comprising 14 organisations, has released a \u201cdeclaration\u201d outlining why they feel \u201ccompelled to resist\u201d moves to bless same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>A statement published on a new website, declaration.ceec.info, includes an apology for \u201cthe times we have failed and continue to fail to love [LGBTQ+ people] as God loves them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement continues: \u201cSadly, however, we cannot accept central features of the bishops\u2019 proposed way forward.\u201d The move to bless same-sex couples, and to allow priests to be in same-sex marriages, \u201crepresents a departure from the faith which is revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds and to which the historic formularies of the Church of England bear witness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The CEEC is inviting those who agree with the declaration to register their support on the website, which also includes a range of \u201csupporting resources\u201d about the CEEC\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/24-march\/news\/uk\/evangelical-group-calls-for-declarations-of-resistance-to-same-sex-blessings\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Evangelical group calls for declarations of resistance to same-sex blessings <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jsDBNWW21z\">https:\/\/t.co\/jsDBNWW21z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1640887857890971648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC), a group comprising 14 organisations, has released a \u201cdeclaration\u201d outlining why they feel \u201ccompelled to resist\u201d moves to bless same-sex couples. A statement published on a new website, declaration.ceec.info, includes an apology for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119782\">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":[576,175,324,199,168,419,177,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","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","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119782","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=119782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119786,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119782\/revisions\/119786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}