{"id":141627,"date":"2025-12-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141627"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:27:15","slug":"christian-today-church-in-wales-road-map-for-same-sex-blessings-is-distressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141627","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Church in Wales \u2018road map\u2019 for same-sex blessings is \u2018distressing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Orthodox Anglicans have accused bishops in the Church in Wales of \u201cmisleading\u201d statements as it moves towards making same-sex blessings permanent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bishops in the Church in Wales have published a \u2018road map\u2019 for the future of same-sex blessings following a four-year trial and a six-month consultation with clergy and parishioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the trial period, same-sex couples in a civil partnership or marriage were allowed to come to Church in Wales churches with friends and family to receive a blessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bishops said that the Church is reaching the point \u201cwhere it must take major decisions on these matters\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a pastoral letter to Church in Wales members, the bishops said that \u201cmost\u201d responses to the consultation were \u201cin favour of the view that the time is right to offer equal marriage to traditional and same sex couples\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/news\/church-in-wales-roadmap-for-same-sex-blessings-is-distressing\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Church in Wales &#39;road map&#39; for same-sex blessings is &#39;distressing&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0eujIwhx2e\">https:\/\/t.co\/0eujIwhx2e<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christian Today (@ChristianToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianToday\/status\/1996128219427471505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orthodox Anglicans have accused bishops in the Church in Wales of \u201cmisleading\u201d statements as it moves towards making same-sex blessings permanent.&nbsp; Bishops in the Church in Wales have published a \u2018road map\u2019 for the future of same-sex blessings following a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141627\">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":[576,175,405,168,183,184,177,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-wales","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141627","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=141627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141631,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141627\/revisions\/141631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}