{"id":26156,"date":"2011-05-13T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_let_other_faiths_in_lords_are_urged\/"},"modified":"2011-05-13T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T17:00:29","slug":"church_times_let_other_faiths_in_lords_are_urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26156","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Let other faiths in, Lords are urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of non-Christian faith groups should be invited to sit alongside bishops in the House of Lords, a historian who contributed to a commission on reform of the Second Chamber has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the Church Times today, John F. H. Smith, an architec\u00c2\u00adtural historian who made a sub\u00c2\u00admission to the Royal Commis\u00c2\u00adsion on the Reform of the House of Lords, argues that, although bishops should re\u00c2\u00admain \u201cin the majority\u201d\u009d, \u201can interdenominational and inter\u00c2\u00adfaith college\u201d\u009d would \u201cbroaden faith repres\u00c2\u00aden\u00c2\u00adtation\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligious leaders would, there\u00c2\u00adfore, continue to widen debate by bringing moral and philosophical perspectives to stand alongside the political, economic, and financial judgements of other groups,\u201d\u009d he writes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=111996\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of non-Christian faith groups should be invited to sit alongside bishops in the House of Lords, a historian who contributed to a commission on reform of the Second Chamber has suggested. Writing in the Church Times today, John F.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26156\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,389,579,635,199,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-churchstate-matters","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26156","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=26156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}