{"id":7780,"date":"2008-08-06T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T16:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irish_times_anglicanism_divided\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T16:48:18","slug":"irish_times_anglicanism_divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7780","title":{"rendered":"Irish Times: Anglicanism divided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The communion&#8217;s strength has always been its capacity to fudge difference in the interest of cohesion; to place human relationship before rigidity.<\/p>\n<p>This does not mean Anglicanism is out of the woods on human sexuality issues. The risk of schism remains.<\/p>\n<p>But what it succeeded in doing at Lambeth was to secure more &#8211; and very necessary &#8211; time. It also allowed those present to gain a deeper understanding of where others are coming from on same-sex issues.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the differences between liberal and conservative elements within the communion is demonstrated by the fact that approximately a quarter of the communion&#8217;s bishops were absent from the conference &#8211; in protest at the handling of these same-sex issues by Dr Williams and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/opinion\/2008\/0806\/1217923985555.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The communion&#8217;s strength has always been its capacity to fudge difference in the interest of cohesion; to place human relationship before rigidity. This does not mean Anglicanism is out of the woods on human sexuality issues. The risk of schism<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7780\">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":[36,50,74,409,199,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-england-uk","category-lambeth-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780","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=7780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}