Commenting on the outcome of the General Election \u00a0the Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says :<\/p>\n
\u201cThe outcome of the General Election of 2015 has delivered a result notable both for its clarity and its complexity.\u00a0 The people have spoken through the ballot box.\u00a0 They have expressed hopes, aspirations, needs, passions \u2013 and some fears.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose of us who live in Scotland must recognise that we are living through times of profound change.\u00a0 Our prayer for Scotland, its people and its leaders, must be that we shall find at the end of our journey new and creative ways of relating to the peoples and nations with whom we share these islands.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocracy in operation has a cruel face.\u00a0 Political careers of those who have served their country faithfully have been brought to a premature end.\u00a0 We honour their commitment and their service.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the duty of Christians to honour and to pray for those who exercise authority in the state.\u00a0 Those who now take office as MP\u2019s or in government are assured of our good wishes and our prayers in the days to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commenting on the outcome of the General Election \u00a0the Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says : \u201cThe outcome of the General Election of 2015 has delivered a result notable both for its clarity and its complexity.\u00a0 The people have spoken through the […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}