{"id":24488,"date":"2011-02-10T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_church_of_england_baptism_service_language_to_be_simplified\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:00:13","slug":"bbc_church_of_england_baptism_service_language_to_be_simplified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24488","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Church of England Baptism service language to be simplified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is to simplify the language for baptism ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, admitted to a sense of &#8220;eyes glazing over&#8221; during some services.<\/p>\n<p>The General Synod, the Church&#8217;s national assembly, voted to back a Liverpool Diocese motion calling for more accessible text to be available.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Tim Stratford, from Kirkby, Merseyside, said it was not a request for &#8220;christenings without Christianity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-12407927\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is to simplify the language for baptism ceremonies. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, admitted to a sense of &#8220;eyes glazing over&#8221; during some services. The General Synod, the Church&#8217;s national assembly, voted to back<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24488\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488","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=24488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}