{"id":38082,"date":"2013-05-01T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_alan_wilson-its_time_for_the_church_of_england_to_drop_the_culture_\/"},"modified":"2013-05-01T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:15:06","slug":"bishop_alan_wilson-its_time_for_the_church_of_england_to_drop_the_culture_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38082","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Alan Wilson&#8211;It\u2019s time for the Church of England to drop the culture wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three thousand years ago the Prophet Amos asked \u201d\u02dccan two walk together except they be agreed?\u2019 How can the Church of England, pragmatic and volunteer-led but with complex legal and cultural structures, stay meshed with its culturally incompatible overseas churches? What is its future?<\/p>\n<p>Theo Hobson argues in this week\u2019s Spectator that the C of E needs to find a third way in order to survive, affirming gay partnerships whilst simultaneously rejecting equal marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Can this be done? If the deadlock Hobson describes arose from a frail incoherent compromise, Some Issues in Human Sexuality, how can more hand-wringing duplicity solve it?<\/p>\n<p>The world has moved radically on since 1991&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.spectator.co.uk\/alanwilson\/2013\/04\/its-time-for-the-church-of-england-to-drop-the-culture-wars\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three thousand years ago the Prophet Amos asked \u201d\u02dccan two walk together except they be agreed?\u2019 How can the Church of England, pragmatic and volunteer-led but with complex legal and cultural structures, stay meshed with its culturally incompatible overseas<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38082\">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":[36,39,73,576,74,175,389,635,168,98,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-analysis","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38082","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=38082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}