{"id":48907,"date":"2015-03-18T21:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T21:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_canon_goddard_apologises_for_muslim_prayers_in_his_church\/"},"modified":"2015-03-18T21:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T21:45:39","slug":"church_times_canon_goddard_apologises_for_muslim_prayers_in_his_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48907","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Canon Goddard apologises for Muslim prayers in his church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A priest in the diocese of Southwark who opened us his church for Muslim prayers has apologised after being told that this was not permitted within a consecrated building.<\/p>\n<p>The Vicar of St John&#8217;s, Waterloo, the Canon Giles Goddard, said on Tuesday that the event had caused &#8220;great consternation&#8221;, and he apologised for &#8220;the offence caused and any infringement of Church of England&#8217;s framework and guidelines&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The prayers were held on 6 March as part of the Inclusive Mosque Initiative, in the run-up to International Women&#8217;s Day. They were led by Dr Amina Wadud who campaigns for gender justice in Islam. Men and women sat alongside one another in the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/20-march\/news\/uk\/canon-goddard-apologises-for-muslim-prayers-in-his-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A priest in the diocese of Southwark who opened us his church for Muslim prayers has apologised after being told that this was not permitted within a consecrated building. The Vicar of St John&#8217;s, Waterloo, the Canon Giles Goddard, said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48907\">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":[36,48,42,74,389,161,426,183,435,659,155,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48907","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=48907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}