{"id":35384,"date":"2012-10-30T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_leader_a_new_archbishop_must_not_pit_the_church_against_modern\/"},"modified":"2012-10-30T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T15:00:46","slug":"london_times_leader_a_new_archbishop_must_not_pit_the_church_against_modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35384","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times Leader) A new Archbishop must not pit the Church against modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy own view\u201d\u009d, wrote C. S. Lewis in 1943, \u201cis that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and therefore cannot be expected to lead Christian lives.\u201d\u009d When a new Archbishop of Canterbury succeeds Dr Rowan Williams he will face a still more acute form of that dilemma. He will, even so, have an essential role in the life of the nation as well as the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is to articulate, in an age of doubt and pluralism, the essential Christian virtue of love in theological terms, and strive to make the Church its vehicle&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/leaders\/article3583667.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy own view\u201d\u009d, wrote C. S. Lewis in 1943, \u201cis that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and therefore cannot be expected to lead Christian lives.\u201d\u009d When a new Archbishop of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35384\">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":[36,39,50,74,67,389,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35384","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=35384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}