{"id":48368,"date":"2015-02-13T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ch_times_at_c_of_e_general_synod_cash_requested_to_combat_the_doomsday_mach\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:00:13","slug":"ch_times_at_c_of_e_general_synod_cash_requested_to_combat_the_doomsday_mach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48368","title":{"rendered":"(Ch Times) At C of E General Synod, Cash requested to combat the \u201d\u02dcdoomsday machine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking the rules on borrowing from the future is necessary to stave off the &#8220;existential crisis&#8221; of ever-declining congregations, members of the General Synod were told this week.<\/p>\n<p>The First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas Whittam Smith, said on Tuesday that for 20 years the Church Commissioners had &#8220;religiously&#8221; maintained the value of their endowment, so that the same lump sum would always be available for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>But the &#8220;doomsday machine&#8221;, by which C of E membership falls year on year as the deaths of older churchgoers is not matched by the arrival of younger people, meant that the Commissioners&#8217; rule on intergenerational equity needed to be broken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/13-february\/news\/uk\/cash-requested-to-combat-the-doomsday-machine\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking the rules on borrowing from the future is necessary to stave off the &#8220;existential crisis&#8221; of ever-declining congregations, members of the General Synod were told this week. The First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas Whittam Smith, said on Tuesday that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48368\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,74,389,149,199,168,184,108,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48368","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=48368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}