{"id":122607,"date":"2023-08-04T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T21:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122607"},"modified":"2023-08-04T17:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T21:35:38","slug":"church-times-htb-vicar-upbraided-by-members-of-a-nearby-parish-for-his-stance-on-blessings-for-same-sex-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122607","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) HTB Vicar upbraided by members of a nearby parish for his stance on blessings for same-sex couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worshippers at one of the churches united with Holy Trinity, Brompton (HTB), have expressed \u201cextreme disquiet\u201d to the Vicar, the Revd Archie Coates, about his stance on blessings for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of July, Mr Coates was among 27 signatories to a letter, shown to the Church Times, which argued that it was \u201cunlawful, unconstitutional, and illegitimate\u201d for the Bishops to commend the Prayers of Love and Faith. The letter said that they should instead be subject to a process of formal synodical authorisation (News, 7 July).<\/p>\n<p>The signatories included three other prominent figures in the HTB network of churches, including Mr Coates\u2019s predecessor, the Revd Nicky Gumbel. A footnote stated that individuals were \u201csigning in their personal capacities, recognising they cannot claim to speak for everyone that they lead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding this caveat, their contribution marked the first public statement on the prayers by members of HTB\u2019s leadership. The Prayers of Love and Faith work was approved in outline by the General Synod in February (Synod, 17 February) and the business is due to return to the Synod in November (News, 22 June).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/28-july\/news\/uk\/htb-vicar-upbraided-for-stance-on-blessings-for-same-sex-couples\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs a group of worshippers within the parish we must strongly disassociate ourselves from this letter and we would like you to know that it is causing us extreme disquiet.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eeJK1QqF4J\">https:\/\/t.co\/eeJK1QqF4J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1685446216266514433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 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>Worshippers at one of the churches united with Holy Trinity, Brompton (HTB), have expressed \u201cextreme disquiet\u201d to the Vicar, the Revd Archie Coates, about his stance on blessings for same-sex couples. At the start of July, Mr Coates was among<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122607\">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":[576,175,324,168,184,177,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","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\/122607","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=122607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122609,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122607\/revisions\/122609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}