{"id":17811,"date":"2012-11-01T21:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17811"},"modified":"2012-11-01T21:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:06:49","slug":"the-safe-church-network-is-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-safe-church-network-is-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"The Safe Church Network is launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/news.cfm\/2012\/11\/1\/ACNS5226\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, I had no idea what a safe church is: I thought it must be a church that dispenses condoms.<\/p>\n<p>No: apparently it is a church that \u201cvulnerable people\u201d can attend and not be abused. Clearly, this is a slap in the face that is not quite hard enough for the burgeoning Anglican masochist community; where will <em>they<\/em> go to feel included?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Anglican Communion&#8217;s newest network, the Safe Church Network, has announced it\u00a0is planning a conference in Africa for 2014 around how to make churches safer for vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Garth Blake, convener of the communion\u2019s new Safe Church Network, said during a press conference on October 31, that many parts of the communion have begun talking about how to address the issue of creating a culture of safety in churches and are at various stages of response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until I read this, I had no idea what a safe church is: I thought it must be a church that dispenses condoms. No: apparently it is a church that \u201cvulnerable people\u201d can attend and not be abused. Clearly, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-safe-church-network-is-launched\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2030,1383],"class_list":["post-17811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","tag-anglican","tag-safe-church-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811","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=17811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}