{"id":9630,"date":"2008-11-17T02:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_anglican_church_lacks_leadership_say_bishops\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T02:03:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T02:03:14","slug":"telegraph_anglican_church_lacks_leadership_say_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9630","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph: Anglican Church lacks leadership, say bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech to conservative evangelicals, who debated proposals for a new &#8220;church within a church&#8221;, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali said that there has been a lack of discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionalists have been upset that the Episcopal Church escaped punishment despite consecrating Gene Robinson as Anglicanism&#8217;s first openly gay bishop.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Rochester told clergy that the new movement was equivalent to the Reformation in the sixteenth century, which led to the establishment of the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Church has become too &#8220;wishy-washy&#8221; and urged evangelicals to stand against the liberal agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Church can be effective without discipline,&#8221; said Dr Nazir-Ali.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/3464612\/Anglican-Church-lacks-leadership-say-bishops.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech to conservative evangelicals, who debated proposals for a new &#8220;church within a church&#8221;, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali said that there has been a lack of discipline. Traditionalists have been upset that the Episcopal Church escaped punishment<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9630\">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":[36,74,67,389,635,66,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630","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=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}