{"id":12938,"date":"2009-05-22T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/peter_toons_obituary_in_the_london_times\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:00:36","slug":"peter_toons_obituary_in_the_london_times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12938","title":{"rendered":"Peter Toon&#39;s Obituary in the (London) Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1991 he moved to the US to teach at the very High Church and conservative theological college of Nashotah House, Wisconsin. He was appalled by what he saw as the excessive liberalism of most of the Episcopal Church and worked for the Prayer Book Society, defending The Book of Common Prayer against the newly authorised American Prayer Book. He was opposed to the use of inclusive language in liturgy. In 2001 he moved to the diocese of Lichfield and he spent five years in the north Staffordshire parishes of Biddulph Moor and Brown Edge, where his highly sympathetic pastoral expertise was much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>The research which lay behind his writings was monumental and he tried to put opposing views in a clear and fair way. His eccentric, warm and humorous style concealed a strong and determined faith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/obituaries\/article6321612.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1991 he moved to the US to teach at the very High Church and conservative theological college of Nashotah House, Wisconsin. He was appalled by what he saw as the excessive liberalism of most of the Episcopal Church and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12938\">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":[36,42,74,389,419,154,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","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=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}