{"id":57522,"date":"2017-02-22T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_muslim_parents_choose_church_schools_because_of_the_focus_on_f\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T06:52:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T10:52:50","slug":"london_times_muslim_parents_choose_church_schools_because_of_the_focus_on_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57522","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Muslim parents choose church schools because of the focus on faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Muslim parents send their children to church schools because they prepare young people for \u201clife in modern Britain\u201d\u009d, a senior figure in the Church of England has said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Nigel Genders said that church schools offered a \u201cdeeply Christian\u201d\u009d education yet were attractive to families of other religions because they took faith seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Genders, chief education officer at the Church of England, which has about 4,500 primary schools, said that they would never drop their religious character even though more children from non-Christian families were attending them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/news\/muslim-parents-choose-church-schools-because-of-spiritual-focus-sbf276rkg\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Muslim parents send their children to church schools because they prepare young people for \u201clife in modern Britain\u201d\u009d, a senior figure in the Church of England has said. The Rev Nigel Genders said that church schools offered a \u201cdeeply<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57522\">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":[36,39,50,42,74,101,389,111,199,168,161,426,98,155,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-education","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57522","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=57522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57978,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57522\/revisions\/57978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}