{"id":140108,"date":"2025-09-29T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140108"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:53:25","slug":"chruch-times-new-westminster-declaration-on-christianity-in-public-life-encompasses-education-gender-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140108","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) New Westminster Declaration on Christianity in public life encompasses education, gender, and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A declaration that \u201cChristian truth and values\u201d belong at the heart of public life in the UK has been launched in the hope that it will attract 100,000 signatures and trigger a debate in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/parliament\">Parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2025 Westminster Declaration, launched last week, argues for the importance of heterosexual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/marriage\">marriage<\/a>&nbsp;and the \u201ccomplementarity of men and women\u201d. It also offers warnings about \u201ccancel culture\u201d and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/artificial-intelligence-ai\">artificial intelligence<\/a>&nbsp;(AI) unchecked by moral reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy ignoring Britain\u2019s Christian heritage we have endangered human life, weakened society, and created a fragmented nation uncoupled from its formative traditions, and without a unifying vision for its future,\u201d the declaration says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On marriage, which it defines as being between a man a woman, the declaration calls for a rejection of \u201cideologies which weaken family ties by falsely claiming that other types of relationship are of equivalent value to marriage\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/3-october\/news\/uk\/new-westminster-declaration-on-christianity-in-public-life-encompasses-education-gender-and-ai\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A declaration that \u201cChristian truth and values\u201d belong at the heart of public life in the UK has been launched in the hope that it will attract 100,000 signatures and trigger a debate in Parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/westminsterdeclaration?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#westminsterdeclaration<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/christianityinpubliclife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#christianityinpubliclife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8QrsPis7f2\">https:\/\/t.co\/8QrsPis7f2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1972654020171796656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A declaration that \u201cChristian truth and values\u201d belong at the heart of public life in the UK has been launched in the hope that it will attract 100,000 signatures and trigger a debate in\u00a0Parliament. The 2025 Westminster Declaration, launched last<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140108\">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":[175,199,168,151,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140108","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=140108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140122,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140108\/revisions\/140122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}