{"id":1413,"date":"2009-02-15T06:23:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T06:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2009-02-15T06:23:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T06:23:25","slug":"the_velvet_revoultion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"The Velvet Revoultion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a great article, a profile, of Archbishop Rowan Williams in this month&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/current\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a> (I love this magazine!).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200903\/archbishop-canterbury\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nThe Velvet Revolution<\/a>, by Paul Elie<br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The place of gay people in the church is one of the bitterest disputes in Christianity since the Reformation. The Anglican Church is trying to have it both ways\u00e2\u20ac\u201daffirming traditional notions of marriage and family while seeking to adapt its teachings to the experiences of gays and lesbians. Presiding over the debate, gently\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtoo gently?\u00e2\u20ac\u201dprodding the communion toward acceptance of gay clergy, is Rowan Williams, the brilliant and beleaguered archbishop of Canterbury. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been pilloried from all sides for his handling of these issues, but his distinctive theology and leadership style may offer the only way to open the Anglican Church to gay people without breaking it apart. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a great article, a profile, of Archbishop Rowan Williams in this month&#8217;s edition of The Atlantic (I love this magazine!). The Velvet Revolution, by Paul Elie The place of gay people in the church is one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}