{"id":53289,"date":"2016-02-09T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/c_of_e_releases_a_new_statement_from_the_bishop_of_durham_on_george_bell\/"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:44:59","slug":"c_of_e_releases_a_new_statement_from_the_bishop_of_durham_on_george_bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53289","title":{"rendered":"C of E releases a new statement from the Bishop of Durham on George Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRecent media comment regarding Bishop George Bell has focused on my recent contributions made in the House of Lords in response to a question on the Church\u2019s actions in this matter.<br \/>\nOn reflection I believe my words were not as clear as they could have been and I welcome this opportunity to provide further clarity.<br \/>\nAlmost three years ago a civil claim was made, raising allegations of abuse by George Bell, the former Bishop of Chichester.<br \/>\nIn response to the claim independent legal and medical reports were commissioned and duly considered. The evidence available was interrogated and evaluated. This led to a decision to settle the claim and to offer a formal apology to the survivor. This decision was taken on the balance of probabilities &#8211; the legal test applicable in civil claims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cofecomms.tumblr.com\/post\/138915810902\/statement-from-bishop-of-durham-on-george-bell\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRecent media comment regarding Bishop George Bell has focused on my recent contributions made in the House of Lords in response to a question on the Church\u2019s actions in this matter. On reflection I believe my words were not as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53289\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,101,186,389,635,199,168,104,114,177,108,112,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53289","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-children","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53289","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=53289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}