{"id":88866,"date":"2020-01-25T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88866"},"modified":"2020-01-26T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T19:39:54","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-archbps-of-york-and-canterbury-expressing-dissent-from-a-disappointment-with-the-c-of-e-h-of-bps-statement-this-weel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88866","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to the Archbps of York and Canterbury expressing dissent from and disappointment with the C of E House of Bps Statement this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the public defeat of your \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdr.co.uk\/documents\/229P-GS2055.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Marriage and Same Sex Relationships (opens in a new tab)\">Marriage and Same Sex Relationships<\/a>\u2018 report to General Synod in 2017, we have waited for you to deliver on your promise of \u2018a radical new Christian inclusion\u2019.  We have been patient believing that nothing further would be said regarding sexuality and relationships until after the publication of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/LLF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Living in Love and Faith<\/a> <\/em>report.  It seems our trust has been misplaced and we feel badly let down.<\/p>\n<p>The pastoral statement makes clear there has been no desire to listen or learn from those of us who spoke to explain how offensive we found the tone of the House of Bishops\u2019 previous document.  Indeed, this statement is anything but \u2018pastoral\u2019 \u2013 it is cold, defensive, and uncaring of its impact on the millions of people it affects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radicalinclusionsite.wordpress.com\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the public defeat of your \u2018Marriage and Same Sex Relationships\u2018 report to General Synod in 2017, we have waited for you to deliver on your promise of \u2018a radical new Christian inclusion\u2019. We have been patient believing that nothing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88866\">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":[389,635,168,98,177,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88866","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=88866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88881,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88866\/revisions\/88881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}