{"id":24454,"date":"2011-02-09T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_church_must_continue_to_influence_debate_says_archbishop_of_york\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T16:00:39","slug":"guardian_church_must_continue_to_influence_debate_says_archbishop_of_york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24454","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Church must continue to influence debate, says Archbishop of York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England cannot expect to be &#8220;universally welcomed or applauded&#8221; for performing its &#8220;God-given duty&#8221; to re-evangelise the country, the archbishop of York has said.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting of the General Synod in London, Dr John Sentamu warned that the &#8220;counter-cultural vision&#8221; of the church mission did not promise a &#8220;life of ease, but of criticism, even persecution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He told the assembled clergy and laity that people lived in &#8220;fractious and uncertain times&#8221; in which the national church was &#8220;constantly questioned and attacked&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/feb\/08\/church-debate-archbishop-york-sentamu\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England cannot expect to be &#8220;universally welcomed or applauded&#8221; for performing its &#8220;God-given duty&#8221; to re-evangelise the country, the archbishop of York has said. At a meeting of the General Synod in London, Dr John Sentamu warned<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24454\">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":[36,39,50,74,83,389,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-york-john-sentamu","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24454","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=24454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}