{"id":780,"date":"2007-07-05T03:46:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T03:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_times_interviews_peter_akinola_for_gods_sake\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T03:46:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T03:46:01","slug":"the_times_interviews_peter_akinola_for_gods_sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"The Times Interviews Peter Akinola&#8211;For God\u2019s sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of what Western church leaders fear, he has no ambitions to lead a breakaway church. \u201cThat has never been on my mind. This is the media thing. You see we have scripture. We have our traditions. We have not broken the law. It is your churches that are breaking the law. You are the ones breaking the rules. You are the ones doing what should not be done with impunity. We are saying you cannot sweep it under the carpet. Maybe in the past you could get away with it, but not any more. We have aged. So we are not breaking away from anybody. We remain Anglicans. We are Anglican Church. We will die Anglicans. We are going nowhere.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article2026348.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>UPDATE:<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timescolumns.typepad.com\/gledhill\/2007\/07\/peter-akinola-w.html\" title=\"Ruth Gledhill has more on her blog\">Ruth Gledhill has more on her blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of what Western church leaders fear, he has no ambitions to lead a breakaway church. \u201cThat has never been on my mind. This is the media thing. You see we have scripture. We have our traditions. We have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=780\">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":[36,65,367,74,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-primary-source","category-statements-letters-primates","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}