{"id":15042,"date":"2009-09-18T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_of_wales_defends_religion_against_nervous_public_officials\/"},"modified":"2009-09-18T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:00:57","slug":"archbishop_of_wales_defends_religion_against_nervous_public_officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15042","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Wales defends religion against \u201d\u02dcnervous public officials\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, yesterday made a strong defence of religion in the public space against attacks from \u201cnervous public officials\u201d\u009d and \u201caggressive secularists\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the Governing Body of the Church in Wales in Lampeter, he urged Christians to \u201ckeep their nerve\u201d\u009d, stating: \u201cSome of the letters I receive assume that religion is dead, irrational and full of superstition and has no place in public life at all, nor that Christians have any right to voice their concerns about any issue.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cWe live in a country that is clamouring for values. People do turn to the church to look for meaning in life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/2009\/09\/17\/archbishop-defends-religion-against-nervous-public-officials-91466-24710666\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, yesterday made a strong defence of religion in the public space against attacks from \u201cnervous public officials\u201d\u009d and \u201caggressive secularists\u201d\u009d. Speaking before the Governing Body of the Church in Wales in Lampeter, he urged<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15042\">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":[36,74,405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042","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=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}