{"id":31188,"date":"2012-03-05T04:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan_williams_likely_faces_defeat_on_an\/"},"modified":"2012-03-05T04:01:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T04:01:49","slug":"telegraph_archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan_williams_likely_faces_defeat_on_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31188","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams Likely faces defeat on Anglican Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has given his backing to a deal intended to prevent a split between the Church\u2019s traditionalist and liberal wings, by effectively preventing openly gay clergy from becoming bishops.<\/p>\n<p>However, last night the proposed Anglican Covenant stood on the brink of failure, after worshippers and clergy rejected it in votes up and down England. Two bishops voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of Dr Williams said that a defeat would be a \u201cdevastating\u201d\u009d blow to him after he staked so much of his authority on the Covenant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9121205\/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-Rowan-Williams-faces-defeat-on-gay-deal.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has given his backing to a deal intended to prevent a split between the Church\u2019s traditionalist and liberal wings, by effectively preventing openly gay clergy from becoming bishops. However, last night the proposed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31188\">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":[36,76,74,67,389,78,514,79,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-covenant","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-windsor-report-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188","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=31188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}