{"id":83509,"date":"2019-07-08T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83509"},"modified":"2019-07-08T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T12:59:46","slug":"c-of-e-synod-votes-to-adopt-covenant-on-clergy-care-and-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83509","title":{"rendered":"C of E Synod votes to adopt Covenant on Clergy Care and Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Synod of the Church of England has voted overwhelmingly in support of a new deal to co-ordinate and improve the approach to the care and well-being of clergy.<br \/>\nMembers voted to adopt a covenant committing parishes, dioceses and the wider church as well as individual clergy to sharing responsibility for the welfare of ministers and their households.<\/p>\n<p>The Revd Canon Simon Butler, who headed the working group which drew up the covenant, said: \u201cThere is a widespread acknowledgment that we can and must do better to support clergy in ways that promote good practice and prevent occasional stress becoming a harmful and chronic condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a great boost to many clergy to see the General Synod taking a lead, and I hope to see the wider church following in the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/synod-votes-adopt-covenant-clergy-care-and-well-being\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Synod of the Church of England has voted overwhelmingly in support of a new deal to co-ordinate and improve the approach to the care and well-being of clergy. Members voted to adopt a covenant committing parishes, dioceses and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83509\">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":[389,435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83509","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=83509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83511,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83509\/revisions\/83511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}