{"id":142063,"date":"2025-12-22T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142063"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:36:32","slug":"church-times-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142063","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Criticism on both sides for Bishops\u2019 latest LLF announcement on sexuality and the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delay to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/house-of-bishops\">House of Bishops\u2019<\/a>\u00a0final decision on the next steps in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/living-in-love-and-faith\">Living in Love and Faith<\/a>\u00a0(LLF) process (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/19-december\/news\/uk\/bishops-press-pause-on-next-steps-for-same-sex-blessings-and-clergy-same-sex-marriage\">News, 16 December<\/a>) has been criticised by campaigners on both sides of the argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The national director of the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC), Canon John Dunnett, said that the statement issued by Church House on Tuesday \u201creads like an admission of \u2018Groundhog Day\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LLF was \u201ceroding the collegiality of the House of Bishops and their ability to lead\u201d, he said, and called for the Bishops to \u201ceither halt the project\u201d or reconsider proposals for structural changes to the Church of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A form of \u201cdelegated episcopal ministry\u201d to provide reassurance to opponents of the changes brought by LLF were rejected by the Bishops at their meeting in October (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/17-october\/news\/uk\/further-synodical-approval-is-needed-for-same-sex-blessings-house-of-bishops-says\">News, 15 October<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/24-october\/news\/uk\/campaigners-for-same-sex-marriage-react-with-dismay-and-sadness-to-c-of-e-house-of-bishops-decision\">17 October<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/2-january\/news\/uk\/criticism-on-both-sides-for-bishops-latest-llf-announcement-on-sexuality-and-the-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The delay to the House of Bishops\u2019 final decision on the next steps in the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process has been criticised by campaigners on both sides of the argument<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/llf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#llf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sexuality?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sexuality<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/samesexmarriage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#samesexmarriage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchtimes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchtimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8cQdJOMkVf\">https:\/\/t.co\/8cQdJOMkVf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/2003011883754754327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delay to the\u00a0House of Bishops\u2019\u00a0final decision on the next steps in the\u00a0Living in Love and Faith\u00a0(LLF) process (News, 16 December) has been criticised by campaigners on both sides of the argument. The national director of the Church of England Evangelical<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142063\">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":[389,635,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142063","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=142063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142067,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142063\/revisions\/142067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}