{"id":10864,"date":"2010-12-06T18:17:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2010-12-06T18:17:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:17:21","slug":"the-diocese-of-niagara-wants-to-be-recognised-internationally-for-well-trained-and-highly-effective-clergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-wants-to-be-recognised-internationally-for-well-trained-and-highly-effective-clergy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of Niagara wants to be recognised internationally for well trained and highly effective clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.niagara.anglican.ca\/vision\/leadership.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By 2012, the Diocese of Niagara is recognized across Canada and internationally for its well trained and highly effective clergy and lay leadership whose life changing collaborative ministry is grounded in covenants between clergy, Bishop and parish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there is anything that the Diocese of Niagara has become known for <em>internationally<\/em>, it is the materialistic, rapacious greed it exhibits in trying to cling on to buildings for which it has little use other than to sell\u00a0 in order to replenish its dwindling coffers. Nevertheless, there\u2019s nothing quite as pretentious as church pretension, so the diocese is putting on a bold face &#8211; a lying bold face.<\/p>\n<p>A priest \u2013 who really <em>is<\/em> an effective leader &#8211; regaled me with the tale of how he has been threatened by Bishop Michael Bird with cancellation of his license since he has left the diocese for another denomination because of theological differences with the diocese. Bird, unable to hold on to a priest with integrity and talent, is vindictively attempting to punish him because he has violated <em>the<\/em> most significant diocesan principle mentioned above: subservience &#8211; in newspeak, <em>covenant<\/em> &#8211; to the bishop.<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of Niagara, its bishop, his benighted vision and all diocesan hangers-on will be recognised by history an example of why fervent purging of the transcendent from Christianity is a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: By 2012, the Diocese of Niagara is recognized across Canada and internationally for its well trained and highly effective clergy and lay leadership whose life changing collaborative ministry is grounded in covenants between clergy, Bishop and parish. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-wants-to-be-recognised-internationally-for-well-trained-and-highly-effective-clergy\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","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=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}