{"id":20177,"date":"2010-06-06T23:32:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sunday_telegraph_divorced_bishops_to_be_permitted_for_first_time_by_church_\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T23:32:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:32:34","slug":"sunday_telegraph_divorced_bishops_to_be_permitted_for_first_time_by_church_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20177","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Telegraph: Divorced bishops to be permitted for first time by Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics described the change in Church rules as &#8220;utterly unacceptable&#8221; and warned it would undermine the biblical teaching that marriage is for life.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative and liberal bishops have been deeply divided over the issue, which they have been secretly discussing for months.<\/p>\n<p>While Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, supported relaxing the rules, John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, is understood to have fiercely argued against a change.<\/p>\n<p>But The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that the change was agreed at a meeting of the House of Bishops in May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/7805752\/Divorced-bishops-to-be-permitted-for-first-time-by-Church-of-England.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics described the change in Church rules as &#8220;utterly unacceptable&#8221; and warned it would undermine the biblical teaching that marriage is for life. Conservative and liberal bishops have been deeply divided over the issue, which they have been secretly discussing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20177\">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":[36,39,74,389,635,168,98,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177","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=20177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}