{"id":55486,"date":"2016-08-31T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbp_cranmer_blog_vicars_warned_not_to_wear_dog_collars_in_public_for_fea\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:00:28","slug":"archbp_cranmer_blog_vicars_warned_not_to_wear_dog_collars_in_public_for_fea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55486","title":{"rendered":"(Archbp Cranmer blog) Vicars warned not to wear dog collars in public for fear of Islamist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are not told which officials in which diocese have issued this warning, but it is advice which needs to be ignored. To heed such guidance is to surrender to fanatical Islamists; to conceal one\u2019s Christian faith out of fear of the consequences; to hide one\u2019s light under a bushel in order not to provoke some hot-headed Muslim extremist to combat.<\/p>\n<p>Easy for someone to say who\u2019s not in danger of being a target, you may say. But what have we become if we relinquish the vestments of our national faith out of fear of the adherents of another religion? What is ceded? Who is appeased? Where is the victor and who is the vanquished?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archbishopcranmer.com\/vicars-warned-not-to-wear-dog-collars-in-public-for-fear-of-islamist-attack\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not told which officials in which diocese have issued this warning, but it is advice which needs to be ignored. To heed such guidance is to surrender to fanatical Islamists; to conceal one\u2019s Christian faith out of fear<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55486\">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":[36,48,40,50,42,74,175,389,199,168,161,426,435,659,155,184,177,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55486","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=55486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}