{"id":87179,"date":"2019-12-04T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87179"},"modified":"2019-12-04T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:59:00","slug":"yorkshire-post-letters-our-churches-are-very-much-open-for-business-says-the-bishop-of-ripon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87179","title":{"rendered":"(Yorkshire Post Letters) Our churches are very much open for business says the Bishop of Ripon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: The Right Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop of Ripon.<\/p>\n<p>BARRY Ewbank asks (The Yorkshire Post, November 30) \u201chow do we come to a decision as to which churches stay open and which ones close?\u201d Church buildings are both a blessing and a burden to local communities, yet at a fundamental level, and particularly so in rural contexts, these buildings represent a profound commitment to place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/opinion\/letters\/our-churches-are-very-much-open-for-business-says-bishop-of-ripon-yorkshire-post-letters-1-10133396\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our churches are very much open for business says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeedsCofE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeedsCofE<\/a> Bishop of Ripon \u2013 Yorkshire Post Letters <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/piPv5kjbYm\">https:\/\/t.co\/piPv5kjbYm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Janet Gough (@Gough_Janet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gough_Janet\/status\/1202223936269946880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: The Right Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop of Ripon. BARRY Ewbank asks (The Yorkshire Post, November 30) \u201chow do we come to a decision as to which churches stay open and which ones close?\u201d Church buildings are both a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87179\">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":[389,635,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87179","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=87179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87182,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87179\/revisions\/87182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}