{"id":57865,"date":"2017-03-10T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57865"},"modified":"2017-03-10T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:20:04","slug":"bp-of-maidstone-rod-thomass-statement-on-bp-philip-norths-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57865","title":{"rendered":"Bp of Maidstone Rod Thomas&#8217;s statement on Bp Philip North\u2019s withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply saddened that Philip North has felt forced to withdraw from his nomination as the next Bishop of Sheffield. It will be a huge loss to Sheffield and is a body blow to the concept of \u2018mutual flourishing\u2019 which lay at the heart of the agreement to introduce women bishops in the Church of England.<br \/>\nPhilip has huge gifts to offer the Church, and his leadership in Sheffield would have given a great boost to mission.<br \/>\nHowever, the damage to the principles on which the House of Bishops Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests is based, is profound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anglicanmainstream.org\/bishop-of-maidstone-philip-north-hounded-out-of-office\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply saddened that Philip North has felt forced to withdraw from his nomination as the next Bishop of Sheffield. It will be a huge loss to Sheffield and is a body blow to the concept of \u2018mutual flourishing\u2019<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57865\">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":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57865","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=57865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57867,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57865\/revisions\/57867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}