{"id":47869,"date":"2015-01-13T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_c_of_e_cannot_carry_on_as_it_is_unless_decline_urgently_reversed_\/"},"modified":"2015-01-13T19:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:00:51","slug":"telegraph_c_of_e_cannot_carry_on_as_it_is_unless_decline_urgently_reversed_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47869","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) C of E cannot carry on as it is unless decline \u201d\u02dcurgently\u2019 reversed say Archbps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England will no longer be able to carry on its current form unless the downward spiral its membership is reversed \u201cas a matter of urgency\u201d\u009d, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have warned.<\/p>\n<p>It could face a dramatic shortage of priests within a decade as almost half of the current clergy retire, according to the Most Rev Justin Welby and Dr John Sentamu.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile dwindling numbers in the pews will inevitably plunge the Church into a financial crisis as it grapples with the \u201cburden\u201d\u009d of maintaining thousands of historic buildings, they insisted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/11340590\/Church-of-England-cannot-carry-on-as-it-is-unless-decline-urgently-reversed-Welby-and-Sentamu.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England will no longer be able to carry on its current form unless the downward spiral its membership is reversed \u201cas a matter of urgency\u201d\u009d, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have warned. It could face a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47869\">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":[36,39,50,382,74,67,389,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47869","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=47869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}