{"id":49483,"date":"2015-04-22T01:11:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T01:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ch_times_bishop_broadbent_rounds_on_the_critics_of_reform_and_renewal\/"},"modified":"2015-04-22T01:11:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T01:11:54","slug":"ch_times_bishop_broadbent_rounds_on_the_critics_of_reform_and_renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49483","title":{"rendered":"(Ch Times) Bishop Broadbent rounds on the critics of Reform and Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A robust defence of the Archbishops&#8217; programme Reform and Renewal was delivered at a gathering of Evangelicals last week, addressing critics who have questioned everything from its theology to its methodology.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by the Evangelical group Fulcrum, the event, which asked whether the Church of England was &#8220;drinking in the last-chance saloon&#8221;, was addressed by the Bishop of Willesden, the Rt Revd Pete Broadbent, and the Revd Dr Ian Paul, associate minister of St Nicholas, Nottingham, and lecturer at the University of Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p>The audience heard an unapologetic defence of the drive to tackle numerical decline, and a frank dismissal of some of the programme&#8217;s most vocal critics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/17-april\/news\/uk\/church-growth-bishop-broadbent-rounds-on-the-critics-of-reform-and-renewal\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robust defence of the Archbishops&#8217; programme Reform and Renewal was delivered at a gathering of Evangelicals last week, addressing critics who have questioned everything from its theology to its methodology. Organised by the Evangelical group Fulcrum, the event, which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49483\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,635,199,440,184,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49483","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=49483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}