{"id":45090,"date":"2014-07-14T14:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_head_of_church_of_england_hopeful_vote_will_back_women_bishops\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T14:40:52","slug":"reuters_head_of_church_of_england_hopeful_vote_will_back_women_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45090","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Head of Church of England hopeful vote will back women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury said he was hopeful that the Church of England&#8217;s governing body would approve women bishops when it votes on the issue this week.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world&#8217;s 80 million Anglicans, said the general public would find it &#8220;almost incomprehensible&#8221; should the General Synod fail to support the move on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The long-running debate pits reformers, keen to project a more modern and egalitarian image of the church as it struggles with falling congregations in many increasingly secular countries, against a minority of conservatives who see the change as contradicting the Bible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/13\/us-britain-religion-bishops-idUSKBN0FI0MO20140713\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury said he was hopeful that the Church of England&#8217;s governing body would approve women bishops when it votes on the issue this week. Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world&#8217;s 80 million Anglicans, said the general<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45090\">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":[36,39,382,74,67,389,635,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090","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=45090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}