{"id":67559,"date":"2018-01-24T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67559"},"modified":"2018-01-24T07:40:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:40:46","slug":"c-of-e-services-to-mark-gender-transition-house-of-bishops-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67559","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) Services to mark gender transition \u2013 House of Bishops response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the\u00a0<a class=\"u-mouseBlur\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/welcoming-transgender-people\">debate and vote at General Synod in July 2017 on Welcoming Transgender People<\/a>, the House of Bishops has prayerfully considered whether a new nationally commended service might be prepared to mark a gender transition.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishops are inviting clergy to use the existing rite\u00a0<em>Affirmation of Baptismal Faith<\/em>.\u00a0New guidance is also being prepared on the use of the service.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"u-mouseBlur\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2018-01\/GS%20Misc%201178%20-%20An%20update%20on%20Welcoming%20Transgender%20People%20%28003%29.pdf\">The\u00a0paper discussing the decision is now available.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/services-mark-gender-transition-house-bishops-response\">Read it all<\/a> and follow all three links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the\u00a0debate and vote at General Synod in July 2017 on Welcoming Transgender People, the House of Bishops has prayerfully considered whether a new nationally commended service might be prepared to mark a gender transition. The Bishops are inviting clergy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67559\">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":[175,389,635,199,168,184,436,177,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67559","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=67559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67588,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67559\/revisions\/67588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}