{"id":14135,"date":"2009-07-27T23:35:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_archbishop_of_canterbury_attempts_to_paper_over_church_schism\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T23:35:14","slug":"london_times_archbishop_of_canterbury_attempts_to_paper_over_church_schism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14135","title":{"rendered":"(London) Times: Archbishop of Canterbury attempts to paper over Church schism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury today tried to paper over the cracks as he acknowledged the Anglican church is in schism in all but name.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rowan Williams called for a \u201ctwo-track\u201d\u009d communion where the church is divided on the issue of homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the arrangement be seen not in \u201capocalyptic terms of schism and excommunication\u201d\u009d but rather as \u201ctwo styles of being Anglican\u201d\u009d. Faith bloggers have labelled the opposing factions the \u201cAnglicans\u201d\u009d and \u201cAnglican\u2019ts\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>In his response to the decisions earlier this month by The Episcopal Church of the US to go ahead with gay consecrations and same-sex blessings, Dr Williams refuses to accept what many believe to be the reality of schism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article6729180.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury today tried to paper over the cracks as he acknowledged the Anglican church is in schism in all but name. Dr Rowan Williams called for a \u201ctwo-track\u201d\u009d communion where the church is divided on the issue<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14135\">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":[36,67,66,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135","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=14135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}