{"id":24067,"date":"2011-01-19T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/daily_mail_anglican_church_offers_baptism_lite_to_attract_non-worshippers\/"},"modified":"2011-01-19T02:59:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:59:14","slug":"daily_mail_anglican_church_offers_baptism_lite_to_attract_non-worshippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24067","title":{"rendered":"Daily Mail: Anglican church offers &#39;baptism lite&#39; to attract non-worshippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church of England baptism services may be re-written to remove some references to Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>The plan for a new \u201d\u02dcbaptism lite\u2019 service designed to make christenings more interesting to non-churchgoers will be considered next month by the Church\u2019s parliament, the General Synod. Supporters say the baptism service should be \u201d\u02dcexpressed in culturally appropriate and accessible language\u2019 that is readily understood by \u201d\u02dcnon-theologically versed Britons\u2019. But traditionalist clergy said the idea amounted to \u201d\u02dcdumbing down\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1348133\/The-christening-Christianity-Anglican-church-offers-baptism-lite-attract-non-worshippers.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church of England baptism services may be re-written to remove some references to Christianity. The plan for a new \u201d\u02dcbaptism lite\u2019 service designed to make christenings more interesting to non-churchgoers will be considered next month by the Church\u2019s parliament, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24067\">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":[36,48,74,581,389,183,184,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-baptism","category-church-of-england-coe","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24067","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=24067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}