{"id":52630,"date":"2015-12-16T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dn_martyn_percy_calls_for_archbp_welby_to_say_sorry_for_churchs_global_resp\/"},"modified":"2015-12-16T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:00:16","slug":"dn_martyn_percy_calls_for_archbp_welby_to_say_sorry_for_churchs_global_resp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52630","title":{"rendered":"Dn Martyn Percy calls for Archbp Welby to say sorry for Church\u2019s global response to homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Percy critiques Archbishop Welby\u2019s decision to invite Archbishop Foley Beach of the breakaway Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to attend the Primates\u2019 meeting, without consulting the official Episcopal Churches in the USA and Canada, and suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201d\u02dcSo the Archbishop of Canterbury could begin proceedings in January by offering an apology to American and Canadian Anglicans for his intemperate gestures towards ACNA, and his lack of consultation, which has undermined them. He should further apologise for dealing in territories and spheres of authority that are simply not his to meddle with.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also warns against using the widespread belief that the Anglican churches of the global south now form the majority and are the only ones growing numerically to cede \u201d\u02dcmore moral ground\u201d\u00a6to African churches\u201d\u00a6than might be judicious\u2019 in divisive debates over sexual ethics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/modernchurch.org.uk\/news-blog\/901-senior-cleric-calls-for-archbishop-of-canterbury-to-say-sorry-for-church%E2%80%99s-response-to-homosexuality-worldwide\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Percy critiques Archbishop Welby\u2019s decision to invite Archbishop Foley Beach of the breakaway Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to attend the Primates\u2019 meeting, without consulting the official Episcopal Churches in the USA and Canada, and suggests: \u201d\u02dcSo the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52630\">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":[36,39,50,576,382,175,67,199,168,119,98,177,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-justin-welby","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52630","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=52630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}