{"id":56355,"date":"2016-11-16T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T08:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cranmer_justin_welby_is_preparing_the_ground_for_a_complete_volte-face_on_h\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T08:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T08:25:51","slug":"cranmer_justin_welby_is_preparing_the_ground_for_a_complete_volte-face_on_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56355","title":{"rendered":"[Cranmer] Justin Welby \u201cis preparing the ground for a complete volte-face on human sexuality\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Letter from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martyn_Percy\">Martyn Percy<\/a>, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford to Adrian Hilton, <br \/>..I am quietly confident that ++Justin is softening up the hard edges of conservative evangelicalism, and is preparing the ground for a complete volte-face on human sexuality. I applaud this, of course. I can also see that the best way to keep most of the church together on this issue is for an evangelical archbishop to declare a personal change of heart, and to move the polity to something more progressive from than point. A \u201d\u02dcliberal\u2019 archbishop would be castigated for this, and never forgiven, in a way that an evangelical bishop can\u2019t be. Because they can plausibly assume the mantle of a <i>convert<\/i> to a cause within the evangelical worldview \u201d\u201c and in a way a liberal cannot appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The changes can only be a few years off, in my view. ++Justin knows that the Church of England can have no real public or media credibility as a plausible body \u201d\u201c so can\u2019t do mission, and can\u2019t recruit new clergy easily \u201d\u201c if it carries on discriminating against LGBTQ Christians. The Church of England has to change. And ++Justin is clearly a change-agent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archbishopcranmer.com\/martyn-percy-justin-welby-volte-face-human-sexuality\">Read it all<\/a> and the rest of the correspondence may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/archbishopcranmer.com\/tag\/martyn-percy\">here<\/a>. There is also a letter from the Secretary General of the Archbishops&#8217; Council <a href=\"http:\/\/cofecomms.tumblr.com\/post\/153038017872\/an-open-letter-from-william-nye-to-martyn-percy\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Letter from Martyn Percy, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford to Adrian Hilton, ..I am quietly confident that ++Justin is softening up the hard edges of conservative evangelicalism, and is preparing the ground for a complete volte-face on human sexuality.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56355\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56355","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}