{"id":67487,"date":"2018-01-22T16:06:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67487"},"modified":"2018-01-21T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T19:30:16","slug":"telegraph-church-of-england-braced-for-controversial-vote-on-using-methodist-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67487","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church of England braced for &#8216;controversial&#8217; vote on using Methodist ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church of England leaders are braced for a &#8220;controversial&#8221; vote on whether it should share ministers with the Methodists as part of plans set to boost struggling rural churches. <\/p>\n<p>The proposals will be debated at the Church&#8217;s governing body, the General Synod next month &#8211; but senior figures warned that some will see the proposals as &#8220;very problematic&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The plans would allow priest from each church to preach at the other, and would help areas where there are &#8220;serious challenges in sustaining a Christian presence&#8221;, church leaders suggest. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/01\/20\/church-england-braced-controversial-vote-using-methodist-ministers\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church of England leaders are braced for a &#8220;controversial&#8221; vote on whether it should share ministers with the Methodists as part of plans set to boost struggling rural churches. The proposals will be debated at the Church&#8217;s governing body, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67487\">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":[389,158,416,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecumenical-relations","category-methodist-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67487","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=67487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67489,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67487\/revisions\/67489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}