{"id":14728,"date":"2009-08-31T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/michael_nazir-alichurch_of_england_must_do_more_to_counter_twin_threats_of_\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:40:02","slug":"michael_nazir-alichurch_of_england_must_do_more_to_counter_twin_threats_of_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14728","title":{"rendered":"Michael Nazir-Ali:Church of England must do more to counter twin threats of secularism and Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But &#8230;[Bishop Nazir-Ali] also said that the Church of England, which is used to working with society, should speak up more often to defend the country\u2019s customs and institutions, most of which are based on Christian teaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it will need to be more visible and take more of a stand on moral and spiritual issues,\u201d\u009d the bishop said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s our basis for thinking that people are equal? It\u2019s the Judeo-Christian tradition that has provided us with these resources and we will continue to need it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Church should defend the traditional two-parent family and Christian festivals, which are opposed not by followers of other faiths but by atheists who want to remove religion from the public square.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/6104407\/Bishop-of-Rochester-Church-of-England-must-do-more-to-counter-twin-threats-of-secularism-and-radical-Islam.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But &#8230;[Bishop Nazir-Ali] also said that the Church of England, which is used to working with society, should speak up more often to defend the country\u2019s customs and institutions, most of which are based on Christian teaching. \u201cI think it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14728\">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":[36,39,50,42,74,389,635,199,426,155,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728","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=14728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}