{"id":130541,"date":"2024-07-08T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130541"},"modified":"2024-07-08T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T22:46:11","slug":"church-times-c-of-e-synod-narrowly-and-murkily-moves-forward-on-same-sex-blessing-services-leaving-multiple-questions-unresolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130541","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) C of E Synod narrowly and murkily moves forward on same-sex blessing services, leaving multiple questions unresolved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Proposals to remove impediments on the use of new blessings for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/lgbtsexuality\">same-sex couples<\/a>\u00a0in stand-alone services, along with the provision of delegated episcopal ministry for those who oppose the changes, were shown a pale green light from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/general-synod\">General Synod<\/a>\u00a0on Monday afternoon&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A notable opponent of the motion was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-bath-wells\">the Bishop of Bath &amp; Wells<\/a>, Dr Michael Beasley, who has previously voted for LLF motions and supported an amendment in November last year calling for stand-alone services to be trialled (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/17-november\/news\/uk\/general-synod-agrees-to-trial-services-for-same-sex-couples-after-marathon-debate\">News, 17 November 2023<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was voting against the motion this time, he said, because he felt that it was necessary to do more work on questions about whether doctrine was being changed by the introduction of services that some feared would resemble weddings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/12-july\/news\/uk\/same-sex-blessings-the-bus-moves-forward-but-we-re-under-it-say-some-synod-members\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals to remove impediments on the use of new blessings for\u00a0same-sex couples\u00a0in stand-alone services, along with the provision of delegated episcopal ministry for those who oppose the changes, were shown a pale green light from the\u00a0General Synod\u00a0on Monday afternoon&#8230;. A<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130541\">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":[175,389,635,199,168,184,177,108,514,79,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130541","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=130541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130542,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130541\/revisions\/130542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}