{"id":24119,"date":"2011-01-21T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T17:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/liverpool_echo_church_of_england_plea_to_make_church_services_less_baffling\/"},"modified":"2011-01-21T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T17:02:32","slug":"liverpool_echo_church_of_england_plea_to_make_church_services_less_baffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24119","title":{"rendered":"(Liverpool Echo) Church of England plea to make church services less baffling for non-churchgoers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev Dr Tim Stratford, from Kirkby, said a group of clergy from deprived parishes in the Liverpool Diocese had discussed their misgivings about some of the language in the baptismal service.<\/p>\n<p>He said the tension between understandability and historic theological references was \u201cas sharp as ever\u201d\u009d in rites such as baptism involving large numbers of people including parents and godparents who are \u201cunchurched\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>One of the passages highlighted by the group was the Prayer over Water, during the baptismal service, which speaks of the children of Israel being led from slavery in Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/liverpool-news\/local-news\/2011\/01\/18\/church-of-england-plea-to-make-church-services-less-baffling-for-non-churchgoers-100252-28004002\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev Dr Tim Stratford, from Kirkby, said a group of clergy from deprived parishes in the Liverpool Diocese had discussed their misgivings about some of the language in the baptismal service. He said the tension between understandability and historic<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24119\">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-24119","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\/24119","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=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}