{"id":15781,"date":"2009-10-28T01:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jonathan_wynne-jones_disaffected_anglican_bishops_dont_know_if_theyre_comin\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:30:31","slug":"jonathan_wynne-jones_disaffected_anglican_bishops_dont_know_if_theyre_comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15781","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Wynne-Jones: Disaffected Anglican bishops don&#39;t know if they&#39;re coming or going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague, George Pitcher, described Church of England bishops as \u201cflirts\u201d\u009d yesterday, but reading recently issued statements from the bishops of Rochester and Chichester, they sound more like confused old dears.<\/p>\n<p>They have objected to reports that they are considering leaving Canterbury for Rome following the Pope\u2019s invitation to disaffected Anglicans \u201d\u201c a group of which they are most definitely members.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reluctant to point out how flawed the Bishop of Chichester\u2019s denial is, as John Hind is a black belt in Judo, but he appears to have got himself trapped in a stranglehold of illogicality. It\u2019s worth bearing with me, if only because this highlights why some bishops fail to ever get across their message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jonathanwynne-jones\/100014835\/disaffected-anglican-bishops-dont-know-if-theyre-coming-or-going\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague, George Pitcher, described Church of England bishops as \u201cflirts\u201d\u009d yesterday, but reading recently issued statements from the bishops of Rochester and Chichester, they sound more like confused old dears. They have objected to reports that they are considering<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15781\">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":[36,42,74,67,389,635,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781","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=15781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}