{"id":37614,"date":"2013-04-02T03:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T03:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/uk_poll_points_to_mistrust_in_the_church_of_england\/"},"modified":"2013-04-02T03:38:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T03:38:35","slug":"uk_poll_points_to_mistrust_in_the_church_of_england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37614","title":{"rendered":"UK poll points to mistrust in the Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only around a half of Britons trust the clergy to tell the truth and a similar proportion think the Church of England does a bad job of providing moral leadership, a poll showed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The survey by pollster YouGov, commissioned by Britain\u2019s Sunday Times newspaper, further showed that 69 per cent of respondents thought the Church of England, mother church of the world\u2019s 80-million-strong Anglican communion, was out of touch.<\/p>\n<p>Forty per cent of those polled said they did not trust priests, vicars and other clergy to tell the truth and, overall, doctors, teachers and judges were rated as more trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/20130401\/world\/UK-poll-points-to-mistrust-in-the-Church-of-England.463719\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only around a half of Britons trust the clergy to tell the truth and a similar proportion think the Church of England does a bad job of providing moral leadership, a poll showed yesterday. The survey by pollster YouGov, commissioned<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37614\">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":[36,39,74,389,168,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614","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=37614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}