{"id":133247,"date":"2024-12-06T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133247"},"modified":"2024-12-06T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:47:28","slug":"archbishop-welby-apologises-for-his-house-of-lords-speech-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133247","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Welby apologises for his House of Lords Speech yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><blockquote>Yesterday, I gave my farewell speech in the House of Lords, as part of a debate on housing and homelessness.\n\nI would like to apologise wholeheartedly for the hurt that my speech has caused.\n\nI understand that my words \u2013 the things that I said, and those I omitted to say \u2013 have caused further distress for those who were traumatised, and continue to be harmed, by John Smyth\u2019s heinous abuse, and by the far reaching effects of other perpetrators of abuse.\n\nI did not intend to overlook the experience of survivors, or to make light of the situation \u2013 and I am very sorry for having done so.\n\nIt remains the case that I take both personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatising period after 2013, and the harm that this has caused survivors.\n\nI continue to feel a profound sense of shame at the Church of England\u2019s historic safeguarding failures.<\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/news\/news-and-statements\/personal-statement-archbishop-canterbury\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I gave my farewell speech in the House of Lords, as part of a debate on housing and homelessness. I would like to apologise wholeheartedly for the hurt that my speech has caused. I understand that my words \u2013<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133247\">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":[382,67,324,199,168,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133247","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=133247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133252,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133247\/revisions\/133252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}