{"id":35186,"date":"2012-10-19T16:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_rowan_williams_urges_waverers_to_back_women-bishops_measure\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T16:45:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:45:44","slug":"church_times_rowan_williams_urges_waverers_to_back_women-bishops_measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35186","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Rowan Williams urges waverers to back women-bishops Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury has begun a campaign to persuade General Synod members to back the new women-bishops legislation when it returns to debate it next month.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the Church Times this week, he addresses waverers, those who find the legislation &#8220;not quite good enough, or not quite simple enough&#8221;. To vote against the legislation, which he admits is &#8220;not perfect&#8221;, would be to risk &#8220;committing us to a period of continued and perhaps intensified internal conflict, with no clearly guaranteed outcome . . . a period of publicly embarrassing and internally draining indecision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2012\/19-october\/news\/uk\/williams-urges-waverers-to-back-women-bishops-measure\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury has begun a campaign to persuade General Synod members to back the new women-bishops legislation when it returns to debate it next month. Writing in the Church Times this week, he addresses waverers, those who find<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35186\">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":[36,39,381,74,67,389,635,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-rowan-williams","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35186","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=35186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}