{"id":141577,"date":"2025-12-02T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141577"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:52:20","slug":"am-more-from-church-society-further-discussion-on-prayers-of-love-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141577","title":{"rendered":"(AM) More from Church Society&#8211;Further discussion on Prayers of Love and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanmainstream.org\/article\/further-discussion-on-prayers-of-love-and-faith\/\">there<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House of Bishops will be meeting this month, amongst other things to confirm the course of action outlined in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/churchsociety.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a3ce2476153fa79c7bb5f5ebf&amp;id=6f7b40420d&amp;e=aa339a7d79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement made in October<\/a>&nbsp;about the Prayers of Love and Faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will, no doubt, be pressure from some to row back on these proposals. As the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/churchsociety.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a3ce2476153fa79c7bb5f5ebf&amp;id=ad787cda32&amp;e=aa339a7d79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Church Times reports<\/a>, the Bishop of Chelmsford has publicly stated her bitter regret at what was agreed, and Lincoln Diocesan Synod has called for the bishops to reverse it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the supporting paperwork and the original statement suggest that it would be very difficult for them to do so, we should not underestimate the strength of feeling some will bring to this debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please continue to pray that they will live up to their calling as shepherds and overseers of God\u2019s flock.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lincoln diocesan synod has called on the House of Bishops to \u201cproceed at pace\u201d to implement stand-alone blessing services for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/samesex?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#samesex<\/a> couples<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ThKnbVlTYp\">https:\/\/t.co\/ThKnbVlTYp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1994021730038288712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From there. The House of Bishops will be meeting this month, amongst other things to confirm the course of action outlined in the&nbsp;statement made in October&nbsp;about the Prayers of Love and Faith. There will, no doubt, be pressure from some<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141577\">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":[175,389,635,168,98,177,514,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141577","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=141577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141580,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141577\/revisions\/141580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}