{"id":30418,"date":"2012-01-21T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_churchwardens_quit_in_row_with_rector\/"},"modified":"2012-01-21T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T20:44:09","slug":"london_times_churchwardens_quit_in_row_with_rector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30418","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Churchwardens quit in row with rector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four churchwardens have resigned from a small rural parish in Kent in a long-running saga in which the diocesan bishop was forced to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>In their extraordinary joint letter of resignation the four churchwardens accuse their rector, Dr David Attwood, of \u201cpoor personal relationships with several leading parishioners\u201d\u009d and of being \u201cextremely verbally aggressive\u201d\u009d on a visit to one former churchwarden.<\/p>\n<p>The four \u201d\u201d Penelope Bell, Trevor Champ, Roger Flint and Michael Moore \u201d\u201d say that when he arrived in 2002, having overcome an original rejection, the three parishes of Sundridge, Ide Hill and Toys Hill near Sevenoaks were thriving, with growing congregations and healthy finances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article3290461.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four churchwardens have resigned from a small rural parish in Kent in a long-running saga in which the diocesan bishop was forced to intervene. In their extraordinary joint letter of resignation the four churchwardens accuse their rector, Dr David Attwood,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30418\">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":[36,48,74,389,635,437,435,184,436,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418","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=30418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}