{"id":136135,"date":"2025-04-02T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136135"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:56:42","slug":"newcastle-cathedral-pulls-out-of-archbishop-of-yorks-lords-prayer-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136135","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Newcastle Cathedral pulls out of Archbishop of York\u2019s Lord\u2019s Prayer tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a statement to the&nbsp;<em>Church Times&nbsp;<\/em>on Wednesday, the Dean of Newcastle, the Very Revd Lee Batson, said that he was \u201cdeeply proud of the Cathedral\u2019s ongoing ministry to those who have suffered abuse in their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was this that informed the unanimous decision made solely by the Dean and Chapter to inform the Archbishop that we will not be hosting him as part of his Lord\u2019s Prayer tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis decision was made independently by the Cathedral\u2019s governing body and applies specifically to this event. The well-being of survivors remains our highest priority, and Newcastle Cathedral will always strive to put them first.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/8-november\/features\/features\/in-church-going-terms-we-have-failed\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Newcastle Cathedral has withdrawn its planned participation in the Archbishop of York\u2019s Lord\u2019s Prayer Tour <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2jimmZfksw\">https:\/\/t.co\/2jimmZfksw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1907475349639672280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement to the&nbsp;Church Times&nbsp;on Wednesday, the Dean of Newcastle, the Very Revd Lee Batson, said that he was \u201cdeeply proud of the Cathedral\u2019s ongoing ministry to those who have suffered abuse in their lives. \u201cIt was this that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136135\">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":[685,324,199,168,437,435,184,436,177,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archbishop-of-york-stephen-cottrell","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136135","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=136135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136138,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136135\/revisions\/136138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}