{"id":6957,"date":"2008-07-01T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_church_of_england_clergy_plan_mass_exit_over_women_bishops\/"},"modified":"2008-07-01T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T15:26:01","slug":"london_times_church_of_england_clergy_plan_mass_exit_over_women_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6957","title":{"rendered":"(London) Times&#8211;Church of England clergy plan mass exit over women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,300 clergy, including 11 serving bishops, have written to the archbishops of Canterbury and York to say that they will defect from the Church of England if women are consecrated bishops.<\/p>\n<p>As the wider Anglican Communion fragments over homosexuality, England\u2019s established Church is moving towards its own crisis with a crucial vote on women bishops this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Rowan Williams and John Sentamu, seen by The Times, the signatories give warning that they will consider leaving the Church if two crucial votes are passed to introduce female bishops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article4245539.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,300 clergy, including 11 serving bishops, have written to the archbishops of Canterbury and York to say that they will defect from the Church of England if women are consecrated bishops. As the wider Anglican Communion fragments over<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6957\">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":[36,74,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","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=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}