{"id":131157,"date":"2024-09-12T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131157"},"modified":"2024-09-12T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T00:16:15","slug":"church-times-after-deadlocks-crown-nominations-commissions-secret-ballots-may-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131157","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) After deadlocks, Crown Nominations Commission\u2019s secret ballots may end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The secret ballot by which diocesan bishops are nominated could be removed under changes intended to restore trust in the processes of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/crown-nominations-commissionbishops-appointments\">Crown Nominations Commission<\/a>\u00a0(CNC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of the failure of the CNC to appoint on two occasions in the past nine months, faith in the process has deteriorated to the extent that candidates across a range traditions are refusing to have their names added to longlists, a paper by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-london\">Bishop of London<\/a>, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, warns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others are \u201copenly questioning the integrity of the process\u201d, while \u201callegations of politicking in the Vacancy in See process are commonplace\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/13-september\/news\/uk\/after-deadlocks-crown-nominations-commission-s-secret-ballots-may-end\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The secret ballot by which diocesan bishops are nominated could be removed under changes intended to restore trust in the processes of the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2RtEht4aQB\">https:\/\/t.co\/2RtEht4aQB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1834185802064023935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret ballot by which diocesan bishops are nominated could be removed under changes intended to restore trust in the processes of the\u00a0Crown Nominations Commission\u00a0(CNC). In the wake of the failure of the CNC to appoint on two occasions in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131157\">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":[175,324,168,435,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131157","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=131157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131160,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131157\/revisions\/131160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}