{"id":42801,"date":"2014-02-26T22:31:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_war_of_words_between_bishops_and_government\/"},"modified":"2014-02-26T22:31:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:31:16","slug":"church_times_war_of_words_between_bishops_and_government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42801","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) War of words between bishops and Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A row has broken out between faith leaders and the Government over the impact of reforms to the welfare system.<\/p>\n<p>The war of words was sparked by a letter in the Daily Mirror  last week, signed by 27 Anglican bishops, which accused the Government of creating a food-poverty crisis by changing and restricting various benefits.<\/p>\n<p>David Cameron denied that his government was to blame for up to 500,000 visits to foodbanks last year. He said that he was on a &#8220;moral mission&#8221; to end dependency on welfare payments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/28-february\/news\/uk\/war-of-words-between-bishops-and-government\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A row has broken out between faith leaders and the Government over the impact of reforms to the welfare system. The war of words was sparked by a letter in the Daily Mirror last week, signed by 27 Anglican bishops,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42801\">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":[36,39,40,381,74,67,389,635,100,168,151,88,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-rowan-williams","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42801","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=42801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}