{"id":132894,"date":"2024-11-21T18:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132894"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:48:27","slug":"church-times-rethink-needed-on-the-next-archbishop-of-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132894","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) \u2018Rethink needed on the next Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Personal ambition may have motivated some bishops to keep quiet before the Archbishop of Canterbury announced his resignation last week, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-newcastle\">Bishop of Newcastle<\/a>, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, has suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Hartley was the only bishop in the Church of England to call publicly on Archbishop Welby to resign before it was announced (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/15-november\/news\/uk\/resigning-would-help-bishop-of-newcastle-says-after-launch-of-welby-petition\">News, 15 November<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, she told Sky News that she was disappointed that other colleagues had not joined her call, and that she knew of some who \u201cprivately were discerning that it was probably the right thing for the Archbishop to resign\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She suggested that there was \u201ca culture of silence and fear among the Bishops\u201d, and that some might have chosen not to speak out because of a fear of being \u201creprimanded or rebuked\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/22-november\/news\/uk\/rethink-needed-on-the-next-archbishop-of-canterbury\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re now in a period of transition and reflection. One of those reflections will be what sort of person we\u2019re looking for to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury, and what our expectations are of that person.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Gsu6rCeez\">https:\/\/t.co\/2Gsu6rCeez<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1859594321457979826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal ambition may have motivated some bishops to keep quiet before the Archbishop of Canterbury announced his resignation last week, the\u00a0Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, has suggested. Dr Hartley was the only bishop in the Church of England to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132894\">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":[382,175,67,389,635,199,168,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132894","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=132894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132898,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132894\/revisions\/132898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}