{"id":41887,"date":"2014-01-03T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_general_synod_motion_launched_to_alter_law_on_vestments\/"},"modified":"2014-01-03T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:00:36","slug":"church_times_general_synod_motion_launched_to_alter_law_on_vestments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41887","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) General Synod Motion launched to alter law on vestments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In bringing to the General Synod a private member&#8217;s motion recommending a relaxation of canon law as it pertains to clergy vestments, the Vicar of St Thomas&#8217;s, Oakwood, in north London, the Revd Christopher Hobbs, is aware that &#8220;it might be better to let sleeping dogs lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bishops never make a fuss about it, but potentially they could; so it would be better if the law was changed, in my mind, to reflect reality rather than just have it there on the books,&#8221; he said last week. Although it may come as news to members of some congregations, who may be more accustomed to seeing their priest in a V-neck sweater than a surplice, canon law prescribes particular choices for the correct vesture of a minister.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/3-january\/news\/uk\/motion-launched-to-alter-law-on-vesture\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In bringing to the General Synod a private member&#8217;s motion recommending a relaxation of canon law as it pertains to clergy vestments, the Vicar of St Thomas&#8217;s, Oakwood, in north London, the Revd Christopher Hobbs, is aware that &#8220;it might<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41887\">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":[36,48,74,175,389,435,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887","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=41887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}