{"id":43823,"date":"2014-04-28T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_today_rowan_williams_says_britain_is_post-christian\/"},"modified":"2014-04-28T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:16:11","slug":"christian_today_rowan_williams_says_britain_is_post-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43823","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Rowan Williams says Britain is &#39;post-Christian&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Archbishop&#8217;s views are shared by Susie Leafe, director of the evangelical Anglican group Reform. Speaking to Christian Today, she said: &#8220;I think we would be better to describe ourselves as a post-Christian country. We need to acknowledge that we have inherited laws and a culture shaped by Christianity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also suggested that while Britain may be leaving its Christian identity behind, what it is taking up instead is unclear, and therefore Christians need to better present the advantages of a strong faith presence in public life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in danger of frittering away our legacy without a coherent alternative,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;David Cameron&#8217;s comments reflect the latent Christian understanding that many in the UK relate to. The job of our churches is to say that there is so much more on offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/rowan.williams.says.britain.is.post.christian\/37060.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Archbishop&#8217;s views are shared by Susie Leafe, director of the evangelical Anglican group Reform. Speaking to Christian Today, she said: &#8220;I think we would be better to describe ourselves as a post-Christian country. We need to acknowledge that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43823\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,381,67,199,419,154,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-rowan-williams","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-england-uk","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43823","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=43823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}