{"id":89563,"date":"2020-02-14T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89563"},"modified":"2020-02-14T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:21:16","slug":"london-times-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89563","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Oversized vicarages send wrong message to the poor, warns rector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plush vicarages put off working class Christians claims a priest as the Church of England warns of a \u201cserious threat\u201d to its future in poorer areas.<\/p>\n<p>In a debate about struggling to reach people on low-income backgrounds, Rev Canon Chris Tebbutt, rector of Canford Magna, Salisbury, said he had forged much better relationships with his community after giving up a seven-bedroom \u201cmanor house\u201d to live in a new local development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClergy housing is a hugely important factor for mission and evangelism,\u201d he said. \u201cInappropriate housing sends out totally the wrong message to the community.\u201d The vicarage is now occupied by an archdeacon, he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/oversized-vicarages-send-wrong-message-to-the-poor-warns-rector-z2t2l8vl5\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Plush vicarages put off working class Christians claims a priest as the Church of England warns of a \u201cserious threat\u201d to its future in poorer areas<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZbJJQ9xqnv\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZbJJQ9xqnv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Times (@thetimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes\/status\/1228259313971597313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2020<\/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>Plush vicarages put off working class Christians claims a priest as the Church of England warns of a \u201cserious threat\u201d to its future in poorer areas. In a debate about struggling to reach people on low-income backgrounds, Rev Canon Chris<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89563\">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":[389,600,435,184,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563","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=89563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89568,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563\/revisions\/89568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}