{"id":1630,"date":"2008-12-30T00:22:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T04:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2008-12-30T00:22:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T04:22:30","slug":"what-is-it-about-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-is-it-about-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it about Durham?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First we had Bishop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article620772.ece\" target=\"_blank\">David Jenkins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DAVID JENKINS, the former Bishop of Durham who survived a storm in the 1980s when he questioned the literal truth of the resurrection, has been banned from preaching in two of his local churches for swearing in the pulpit.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins, 81, was barred after using the words &#8220;bloody&#8221; and &#8220;damn&#8221; in a sermon. The ban came after complaints from members of the congregation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously he is a bloody idiot; and where did he get that damn name?<\/p>\n<p>And now we have Tom Wright floundering in a bog of <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/27\/tom-wright-immanentizing-the-eschaton\/\" target=\"_blank\">incoherence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The last four months, have done, in economics, what September 11 2001 did in the world of power: provide a moment when the abstract analysis offered by postmodernity suddenly became concrete.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps it is something in the Durham air that befuddles the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First we had Bishop David Jenkins: DAVID JENKINS, the former Bishop of Durham who survived a storm in the 1980s when he questioned the literal truth of the resurrection, has been banned from preaching in two of his local churches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-is-it-about-durham\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}