{"id":43004,"date":"2014-03-11T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/andrew_goddard_the_hob_pastoral_guidance_on_ss_marriage_part_i_-_engaging_w\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T04:45:10","slug":"andrew_goddard_the_hob_pastoral_guidance_on_ss_marriage_part_i_-_engaging_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43004","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Goddard: The HOB Pastoral Guidance on SS Marriage Part I &#8211; Engaging with the Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The divisions within the Church of England and the multiple challenges it faces in the light of the advent of same-sex marriage have become even clearer and more serious in the weeks since the House of Bishops Pastoral Guidance.  In what follows I explore three areas where the bishops have been criticised and offer a defence of their stance.  A subsequent article notes three areas where questions remain and concludes by describing the serious challenge now facing the Church of England in the light of the guidance and reactions to it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk\/articles\/the-house-of-bishops-pastoral-guidance-on-same-sex-marriage-part-i-engaging-with-the-critics\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The divisions within the Church of England and the multiple challenges it faces in the light of the advent of same-sex marriage have become even clearer and more serious in the weeks since the House of Bishops Pastoral Guidance. In<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43004\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}