{"id":19800,"date":"2010-05-17T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ruth_gledhill-for_the_sake_of_god_anglican_church_must_put_aside_its_diffe\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:20:40","slug":"ruth_gledhill-for_the_sake_of_god_anglican_church_must_put_aside_its_diffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19800","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Gledhill&#8211;For the sake of God, Anglican Church must put aside its differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the thousands of young people who never go to church in the UK but who are nominally baptised Anglicans cannot remember a time when sodomy was a criminal offence.<\/p>\n<p>These are the people that Church leaders should be trying to attract. In a world facing the well-documented consequences of consumer and materialist greed the Church\u2019s spiritual message is potentially of benefit to millions. If the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives can do it in Britain, surely the liberals and conservatives in the Christian world can form some sort of coalition to bring new leadership to the Anglican morass. They must put their differences behind them, for the sake of God, themselves and the common good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article7128041.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the thousands of young people who never go to church in the UK but who are nominally baptised Anglicans cannot remember a time when sodomy was a criminal offence. These are the people that Church leaders should be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19800\">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":[36,71,67,66,168,78,514,79,372,376,652,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-los-angeles","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800","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=19800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}