{"id":10120,"date":"2010-10-08T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10120"},"modified":"2010-10-08T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:45:33","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-desperately-seeking-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-desperately-seeking-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada desperately seeking cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACoC is running out of money, so it is giving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopal-life.org\/80050_125035_ENG_HTM.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Health and Wealth gospel<\/a> a shot; being effete liberal elitists, their stewardship mavens call it a <em>theology of abundance<\/em>, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is stewardship, not fundraising&#8221; is something I have heard often during the past 15 years as a stewardship teacher. However, as a once-upon-a-time development director for a most-worthy-cause non-profit organization, I know that large gifts always have a spiritual component\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the Symposium on the Spirituality of Philanthropy presented by the Office of Mission Funding of the Episcopal Church in late September was a first, and frankly long overdue. The 64 participants, representing 31 dioceses and eight provinces of the Episcopal Church, as well as the Anglican Church of Canada, filled the Episcopal Church Center&#8217;s chapel to hear four presentations that combined the theology of abundance with highly practical approaches to making the &#8220;ask&#8221; for a major gift.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACoC is running out of money, so it is giving the Health and Wealth gospel a shot; being effete liberal elitists, their stewardship mavens call it a theology of abundance, though: &#8220;This is stewardship, not fundraising&#8221; is something I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-desperately-seeking-cash\/\">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":[16],"tags":[2032,1224],"class_list":["post-10120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120","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=10120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}