{"id":50257,"date":"2015-06-12T02:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/horsham_bishop_will_support_women_bishops_in_shock_shift_in_theology\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T02:29:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T02:29:28","slug":"horsham_bishop_will_support_women_bishops_in_shock_shift_in_theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50257","title":{"rendered":"(W Sussex County Times) In a shift, Horsham Bishop will support women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Horsham announced today (June 10) that he has stepped down from a traditionalists\u2019 committee following a period of strenuous theological reflection over the issue of women bishops.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt Rev Mark Sowerby has resigned from the Society\u2019s Council of Bishops, a Church of England body whose members will generally ordain women as deacons, but for theological reasons and as a matter of personal conscience are unable to accept women as priests and bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Mark said today that he now wishes to accept women into all these roles and as a consequence he has written a personal letter to the Bishop of Wakefield, chair of the council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wscountytimes.co.uk\/news\/local\/horsham-bishop-will-support-women-bishops-in-shock-shift-in-theology-1-6790051\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Horsham announced today (June 10) that he has stepped down from a traditionalists\u2019 committee following a period of strenuous theological reflection over the issue of women bishops. The Rt Rev Mark Sowerby has resigned from the Society\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50257\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50257","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=50257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}