{"id":7031,"date":"2008-07-06T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_church_of_england_faces_ruin_over_women_bishops\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T00:23:00","slug":"london_times_church_of_england_faces_ruin_over_women_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7031","title":{"rendered":"London Times: Church of England faces ruin over women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Rev Nigel McCulloch, who chaired the group that drew up the proposals for women bishops, warned of the &#8220;dangers&#8221; of further delay. He said: &#8220;The moment for making choices has come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the Church should be clear about the consequences of going ahead, which he admitted &#8220;would represent a very significant new direction and the withdrawal of assurances offered 15 years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also admitted the Church&#8217;s tendency to muddle through. &#8220;We remain perplexed over how to distinguish between good muddle and bad muddle. When does principled pragmatism and a generosity of spirit topple over into theological incoherence and the loss of any clear guiding principles?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article4275131.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Rev Nigel McCulloch, who chaired the group that drew up the proposals for women bishops, warned of the &#8220;dangers&#8221; of further delay. He said: &#8220;The moment for making choices has come.&#8221; He said the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7031\">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":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031","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=7031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}