{"id":20678,"date":"2010-07-07T03:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tom_mendelsohn_the_general_synod_of_the_church_of_england_a_brief_introduct\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T03:08:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T03:08:15","slug":"tom_mendelsohn_the_general_synod_of_the_church_of_england_a_brief_introduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20678","title":{"rendered":"Tom Mendelsohn: The General Synod of the Church of England: A brief introduction to the issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest \u201d\u201c and, arguably, the most important \u201d\u201c meeting of the Church of England\u2019s General Synod will start this Friday in York.<\/p>\n<p>I may be speaking too soon on this one, considering the Synod\u2019s history of prevarication and issue-dodging, but it\u2019s looking likely that fireworks are on the agenda \u201d\u201c this is one of the more eagerly (or bitterly, depending on your point of view) awaited sessions of recent times.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of meat on the agenda, but the biggest issue at stake surely has to be the consecration of women bishops, one of the most divisive subjects ever to face the Anglican Communion, and one that could ultimately end in schism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.independent.co.uk\/2010\/07\/05\/the-general-synod-of-the-church-of-england-a-brief-introduction-to-the-issues\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest \u201d\u201c and, arguably, the most important \u201d\u201c meeting of the Church of England\u2019s General Synod will start this Friday in York. I may be speaking too soon on this one, considering the Synod\u2019s history of prevarication and issue-dodging,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20678\">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":[36,74,67,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20678","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=20678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}