From here:
The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson will serve as the Anglican Church of Canada’s next General Secretary, beginning Nov. 1, 2011.
The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson, rector of St. Jude’s Anglican Church in Oakville, Ont., will serve as the Anglican Church of Canada’s next General Secretary, starting Nov. 1. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate, announced Mr. Thompson’s appointment to Church House staff on Sept. 6.
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“I am confident, friends, that Michael is the person for this position at this time,” wrote the Primate in an email to COGS members.
I’m confident of the same thing. He appeared at St. Hilda’s one Sunday morning just before we voted to separate from the Diocese of Niagara. He was a likeable fellow who confided that he rather admired the certainty of our faith – a certainty which he couldn’t share. What more fitting person to hold the post of Secretary General than one whose uncertainty of what he believes matches that of his employer.
This Michael Thompson wrote an opinion piece “A General Synod without walls” just before the General Synod in 2007, when again resolutions concerning same sex issues were up for debate. His opinion piece was a passionate, romantic piece of prose. He was caught up with the excitement of the approaching synod. His theology was based on Feelings alone. Very thin on any theology. And of course, the Anglican Journal gave it plenty of air play. Very depressing for anyone who cares about Theological Truth. Isn’t it amazing how these brave, Anglican prophets are so good at getting high profile, 50,000 dollar a year jobs? While espousing their brave, progressive ideas, they manage to live comfortable, middle-class lives, thank you very much!!!! So, what is really going on here? Isn’t this a display of believing in Careerism? Anglican Clergy careerism? These Anglican prophets are very skilled manipulators at church politics!!! I’m sure glad we have the Old Testament,where real prophets lived. And thank God for John the Baptist, the forerunner and the guardian of Christ . John the Baptist was a real prophet. And He is part of the Christ event.
Liberals continue to control the Anglican Church, continue to be dominant. But let us not get discouraged. We conservatives, traditionalists, and evangelicals are also good Anglicans and good Christians. I have to use a “visible church/invisible church” way of thinking, to understand what the true state of things is. The real Church is hidden in history type of thinking. The false, visible church is part of culture, it is part of the world which is passing away.