{"id":41482,"date":"2013-12-10T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_jeffrey_john_is_a_vote_away_from_being_a_church_of_england_bis\/"},"modified":"2013-12-10T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:30:16","slug":"london_times_jeffrey_john_is_a_vote_away_from_being_a_church_of_england_bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41482","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Jeffrey John is a \u201d\u0160vote away\u201d\u0160 from being a Church of England Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is on the brink of appointing its first gay bishop.<\/p>\n<p>The Dean of St Albans, Dr Jeffrey John, came within one vote of being recommended as the new Bishop of Exeter, The Times has learnt. The successful candidate to succeed the Right Rev Michael Langrish is to be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>This is thought to be the first time that Dr John has made the shortlist for a diocesan post, although he has been longlisted several times. It means that he is back on the \u201clist\u201d\u009d of candidates for bishoprics. Senior insiders believe that it is only a matter of time before he gets a diocesan post, with the money being on the liberal-catholic diocese of Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article3943378.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is on the brink of appointing its first gay bishop. The Dean of St Albans, Dr Jeffrey John, came within one vote of being recommended as the new Bishop of Exeter, The Times has learnt. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41482\">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":[39,576,175,168,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41482","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=41482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}