{"id":55715,"date":"2016-09-20T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_liberals_anger_over_traditionalist_dominated_bishopspanel_on_same-se\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T01:00:12","slug":"church_liberals_anger_over_traditionalist_dominated_bishopspanel_on_same-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55715","title":{"rendered":"Church liberals\u2019 anger over \u201d\u02dctraditionalist dominated\u2019 bishops\u2019panel on same-sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of a change in the Church of England\u2019s stance on sexuality have voiced dismay after a new panel of bishops to help \u201cdiscern\u201d\u009d its future course on issues such as same-sex marriage was chosen seemingly dominated traditionalists.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-strong \u201cBishop\u2019s Reflection Group\u201d\u009d appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York includes a string of prominent evangelicals and some seen as staunch conservatives but no-one who has openly advocated a change in teaching or practice on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals voiced anger while opponents of any change also privately hailed the make-up of the group, set up after a four-day gathering of all the bishops last week, as better than they expected from their point of view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/09\/18\/church-liberals-anger-over-traditionalist-dominated-bishops-gay\">Read it all<\/a> from the Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of a change in the Church of England\u2019s stance on sexuality have voiced dismay after a new panel of bishops to help \u201cdiscern\u201d\u009d its future course on issues such as same-sex marriage was chosen seemingly dominated traditionalists. The 10-strong<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55715\">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":[36,39,50,576,175,199,168,98,177,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","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\/55715","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=55715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}