{"id":20149,"date":"2010-06-05T01:21:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/toronto_star-canadian_anglicans_try_again_to_find_same-sex_blessings_conse\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T01:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:21:10","slug":"toronto_star-canadian_anglicans_try_again_to_find_same-sex_blessings_conse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20149","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Star&#8211;Canadian Anglicans try again to find same-sex blessings consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Canada\u2019s Anglican Church appealed Friday to hundreds of bishops, priests and laypeople that they not let talks on the thorny issue of same-sex unions further divide the church or take on the rancour of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Fred Hiltz said at the opening of the General Synod that there are still varying opinions in the church about homosexuality, but that a new, more conciliatory approach might dull the passions around it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope clearly is that we will be able to continue this conversation, live with some difference and to do it with a degree of grace,\u201d\u009d he said at the triennial gathering in Halifax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/819074--anglicans-try-again-to-find-same-sex-blessings-consensus\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Canada\u2019s Anglican Church appealed Friday to hundreds of bishops, priests and laypeople that they not let talks on the thorny issue of same-sex unions further divide the church or take on the rancour of the past. Rev.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20149\">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":[36,388,74,168,514,79,34,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-windsor-report-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20149","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=20149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}