{"id":68058,"date":"2018-02-09T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68058"},"modified":"2018-02-09T07:32:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T12:32:36","slug":"guardian-c-of-e-raises-serious-concerns-about-christian-freemasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68058","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian)  C of E raises serious concerns about Christian Freemasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has reiterated \u201csignificant concerns\u201d about Christians becoming\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/freemasons\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Freemasons<\/a>\u00a0amid renewed controversy about the presence of the secretive organisation at the heart of the British establishment. Christopher Cocksworth, the bishop of Coventry, flagged up a 1987 report issued by the church that highlighted a \u201cnumber of very fundamental reasons to question the compatibility of Freemasonry and Christianity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop was responding to a question tabled at the church\u2019s General Synod, meeting this week in London, which sought information on services celebrating last year\u2019s 300th anniversary of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) held in \u201ca number\u201d of Anglican cathedrals.<\/p>\n<p>Cocksworth said such data was not collected or monitored centrally, but added that cathedral services were required under canon law not to contravene church doctrine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/feb\/08\/c-of-e-christian-freemasons-church-england\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has reiterated \u201csignificant concerns\u201d about Christians becoming\u00a0Freemasons\u00a0amid renewed controversy about the presence of the secretive organisation at the heart of the British establishment. Christopher Cocksworth, the bishop of Coventry, flagged up a 1987 report issued by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68058\">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":[389,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68058","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=68058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68060,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68058\/revisions\/68060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}