{"id":18383,"date":"2012-12-27T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18383"},"modified":"2012-12-27T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T19:47:24","slug":"the-queen-should-be-the-next-archbishop-of-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-queen-should-be-the-next-archbishop-of-canterbury\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen should be the next archbishop of Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Because she seems to have a firmer grip on the significance of the Incarnation to ordinary people than either the current or soon to be Cantuar.<\/p>\n<p>In her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/queens-christmas-message-in-full-8431133.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas message<\/a>, after a brief recap of the year, she spoke of Christ\u2019s example in serving others:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is the time of year when we remember that God sent his only son &#8216;to serve, not to be served&#8217;. He restored love and service to the centre of our lives in the person of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my prayer this Christmas Day that his example and teaching will continue to bring people together to give the best of themselves in the service of others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In contrast to the Queen, Justin Welby simply couldn\u2019t resist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.durham.anglican.org\/news-and-events\/news-article.aspx?id=368\" target=\"_blank\">blathering on<\/a> about cherished leftist articles of faith: wealth and the implied need for its redistribution, foreign aid, justice and the poor, inequality and higher taxes for the wealthy &#8211; encased in a thin veneer of Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Because she seems to have a firmer grip on the significance of the Incarnation to ordinary people than either the current or soon to be Cantuar. In her Christmas message, after a brief recap of the year, she spoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-queen-should-be-the-next-archbishop-of-canterbury\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2084,2186,2241],"class_list":["post-18383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-christmas","tag-justin-welby","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18383","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=18383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}