{"id":44422,"date":"2014-06-03T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/natl_secular_society_school_chaplains_the_c_of_es_latest_plan_to_evangelise\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:00:40","slug":"natl_secular_society_school_chaplains_the_c_of_es_latest_plan_to_evangelise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44422","title":{"rendered":"(Natl Secular Society) School chaplains: the C of E&#39;s latest plan to evangelise in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re told the primary role of a chaplain is to provide pastoral support to pupils. But the striking thing about the Church&#8217;s report, The Public Face of God, is that young people hardly get a look in. The emphasis is almost entirely on how chaplains serve the mission of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Surely pastoral support should exist to create a nurturing and supportive setting for students during their time at school. The focus should be care and concern for young people and their needs; not the needs of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Those providing pastoral work in schools need the necessary knowledge and skills to offer effective learning-support and the knowhow to develop pupils&#8217; ability to become good citizens. It goes without saying that those carrying out pastoral roles can be motivated by their religious faith, but it shouldn&#8217;t be a requirement of the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularism.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/school-chaplains--the-church-of-englands-latest-plan-to-evangelise-in-schools\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re told the primary role of a chaplain is to provide pastoral support to pupils. But the striking thing about the Church&#8217;s report, The Public Face of God, is that young people hardly get a look in. The emphasis is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44422\">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":[36,39,50,42,74,101,389,111,199,168,155,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-education","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422","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=44422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}