{"id":15982,"date":"2009-11-08T06:33:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gp_taylor_no_hope_no_love_no_grace-_why_i_have_lost_faith_in_the_sinking_\/"},"modified":"2009-11-08T06:33:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T06:33:55","slug":"gp_taylor_no_hope_no_love_no_grace-_why_i_have_lost_faith_in_the_sinking_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15982","title":{"rendered":"GP Taylor: No hope, no love, no grace&#8230; why I have lost faith in the sinking Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of the Catholic Church doesn&#8217;t seem to be afraid to stand up for important moral issues. A secular Press often ridicules these beliefs, but the Catholics have the courage not to back down.<\/p>\n<p>In this rising and damaging age of secularism, this country needs a strong moral compass to be a guide through some very troubled waters. The politicians are not the answer as we have seen with their morally bankrupt attitude to expenses.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, see a need for the Church to again be prophetic to the nation and not be afraid to stand up for what it believes. Heartbreakingly, I am no longer sure the Church of England can do this.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many other Anglicans, I am at that place where I feel I must desert a sinking ship. The iceberg of secularism has struck and even the dance band is now singing the Magnificat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/opinion\/GP-Taylor-No-hope-no.5803796.jp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2009\/nov\/08\/british-bestselling-author-quits-church\">More there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of the Catholic Church doesn&#8217;t seem to be afraid to stand up for important moral issues. A secular Press often ridicules these beliefs, but the Catholics have the courage not to back down. In this rising and damaging<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15982\">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":[36,39,42,74,67,389,154,113,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-other-churches","category-poetry-literature","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982","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=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}