{"id":123605,"date":"2023-10-10T08:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123605"},"modified":"2023-10-10T08:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:26:31","slug":"prayers-of-love-and-faith-c-of-e-bishops-agree-next-steps-to-bring-to-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123605","title":{"rendered":"Prayers of Love and Faith: C of E Bishops agree next steps to bring to Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England\u2019s House of Bishops has agreed in principle that prayers asking for God\u2019s blessing for same-sex couples \u2013 known as Prayers of Love and Faith \u2013 should be commended for use. <\/p>\n<p>The House, which met in London, also concluded that structures for special services for same-sex couples, based on Prayers of Love and Faith, should go forward to be formally authorised under canon law.<\/p>\n<p>The bishops will bring proposals to General Synod next month which will pave the way for a process that would lead to the authorisation of these special services under Canon B2.<\/p>\n<p>This process, expected to take until 2025, would involve consultation with every diocese and require approval by General Synod.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-and-news\/press-releases\/prayers-love-and-faith-bishops-agree-next-steps-bring-synod\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bishops agree to commend Prayers of Love and Faith. <\/p>\n<p>Read the full news at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dMKCYsTMnV\">https:\/\/t.co\/dMKCYsTMnV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Church of England (@churchofengland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland\/status\/1711449104314782020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 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\u2019s House of Bishops has agreed in principle that prayers asking for God\u2019s blessing for same-sex couples \u2013 known as Prayers of Love and Faith \u2013 should be commended for use. The House, which met in London,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123605\">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":[576,175,389,635,168,184,177,108,514,112,188,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123605","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=123605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123607,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123605\/revisions\/123607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}