{"id":70527,"date":"2018-04-24T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70527"},"modified":"2018-04-24T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T21:30:12","slug":"church-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70527","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Secretary General of the Archbishops\u2019 Council, William Nye, writes a letter which warns  TEC (The Episcopal Church) about same-sex marriage rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals to incorporate marriage rites used by\u00a0<a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/sexuality\">same-sex couples\u00a0<\/a>into the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) of the\u00a0<a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/the-episcopal-church-of-the-united-states\">Episcopal Church in the United States<\/a>\u00a0will increase pressure in the Church of England to \u201cdissociate\u201d itself, the secretary general of the Archbishops\u2019 Council, William Nye, has warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Episcopal Church\u2019s Task Force on the Study of Marriage, which has produced the proposals, Mr Nye writes that, if the rites \u2014 written to be used by same-sex or opposite-sex couples \u2014 are incorporated into the BCP as the only marriage rite, \u201cthe pressure to dissociate the Church of England from TEC [the Episcopal Church], in all manner of ways, would increase\u201d. Such a move would also be \u201cpotentially damaging\u201d to work in the C of E to create a new teaching document on\u00a0<a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/lgbtsexuality\">sexuality\u00a0<\/a>(<a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/30-june\/news\/uk\/bishops-to-work-on-text-of-document-on-sexuality\">News, 30 June<\/a>), he writes.<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to warn that, if provision is not made for traditionalists in the Episcopal Church, it would be a \u201cserious blow for\u00a0<a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/interfaith\">interfaith\u00a0<\/a>relations, negatively impacting Christians around the world especially in areas where they are persecuted minorities, as well as harming the stringent efforts to reinforce moderation in religious expression in countries like ours which are affected by terrorism\u201d. The Episcopal Church\u2019s promulgation of the new liturgies is, he writes, \u201cat the least, unhelpful to those of us seeking to bring the Church of England\u2019s deliberations to a good outcome\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2018\/20-april\/news\/uk\/nye-letter-warns-about-same-sex-marriage-rites\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals to incorporate marriage rites used by\u00a0same-sex couples\u00a0into the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) of the\u00a0Episcopal Church in the United States\u00a0will increase pressure in the Church of England to \u201cdissociate\u201d itself, the secretary general of the Archbishops\u2019 Council, William Nye,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70527\">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":[576,382,175,67,324,199,66,168,114,98,177,108,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-justin-welby","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70527","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=70527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70531,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70527\/revisions\/70531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}