{"id":43804,"date":"2014-04-27T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/former_archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan_williams_we_are_a_post-christian_nati\/"},"modified":"2014-04-27T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T22:00:51","slug":"former_archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan_williams_we_are_a_post-christian_nati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43804","title":{"rendered":"Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams: We are a post-Christian nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is now a \u201cpost-Christian\u201d\u009d country, the former archbishop of Canterbury has declared, as research suggests that the majority of Anglicans and Roman Catholics now feel afraid to express their beliefs.<br \/>\nIn an interview with The Telegraph, Lord Williams of Oystermouth says Britain is no longer \u201ca nation of believers\u201d\u009d and that a further decline in the sway of the Church is likely in the years ahead.<br \/>\nWhile the country is not populated exclusively by atheists, the former archbishop warns that the era of regular and widespread worship is over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10790495\/Former-archbishop-of-Canterbury-We-are-a-post-Christian-nation.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the Sunday Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is now a \u201cpost-Christian\u201d\u009d country, the former archbishop of Canterbury has declared, as research suggests that the majority of Anglicans and Roman Catholics now feel afraid to express their beliefs. In an interview with The Telegraph, Lord Williams of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43804\">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":[36,39,50,42,381,67,425,199,155,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-rowan-williams","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-atheism","category-england-uk","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43804","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=43804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}