{"id":53631,"date":"2016-03-08T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_rival_campaigns_gear_up_to_win_over_christians_in_eu_referendu\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:11:45","slug":"church_times_rival_campaigns_gear_up_to_win_over_christians_in_eu_referendu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53631","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Rival campaigns gear up to win over Christians in EU referendum battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two rival campaigns have been established to persuade Christians how to vote in the EU referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Christians for Britain has been set up by Canon Giles Fraser, Priest-in-Charge of St Mary\u2019s, Newington, in south London, a former canon at St Paul\u2019s Cathedral and Church Times columnist, and Adrian Hilton, who runs the blog Archbishop Cranmer, to urge a \u201cLeave\u201d\u009d vote on 23 June.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after it came into being, the Very Revd Michael Sadgrove, who retired as Dean of Durham last year, established a group, Christians for the EU, to urge a vote to \u201cRemain\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Both organisations are, at present, little more than websites and social-media accounts, but they intend to hold public meetings and debates in the build-up to the referendum in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2016\/4-march\/news\/uk\/rival-campaigns-gear-up-to-win-over-christians-in-eu-referendum-battle\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two rival campaigns have been established to persuade Christians how to vote in the EU referendum. Christians for Britain has been set up by Canon Giles Fraser, Priest-in-Charge of St Mary\u2019s, Newington, in south London, a former canon at St<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53631\">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":[39,40,50,149,199,168,200,144,133,151,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53631","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=53631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}