{"id":12045,"date":"2011-03-02T17:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2011-03-02T17:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:34:04","slug":"patient-and-holy-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/patient-and-holy-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient and holy listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/news-update-items\/article\/a-process-of-patient-and-holy-listening-9605.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of a dialogue held Feb. 24 to 27 in Dar es Salaam, the bishops expressed a commitment to \u201ccontinued engagement\u201d and announced plans to meet again. They encouraged other bishops to develop similar networks for dialogue and mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been engaged in a process of patient and holy listening, as Anglicans, coming from a wide diversity of contexts and theological positions, who have chosen to listen to one another,\u201d the bishops said in a joint document called <em>A Testimony of Grace<\/em>, released March 1.<\/p>\n<p>While discussions have not been solely focused on sexuality, the bishops said the sensitivity of the topic required them to approach it with \u201cmutuality and humility and prayer in listening and in speaking as we seek together for God\u2019s wisdom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a load of old bollocks. Does anyone seriously think that the early church would have taken hold of peoples\u2019 imagination, conquered empires and founded civilisations by <em>\u201ca process of patient and holy listening\u201d<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>No? Me neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: At the end of a dialogue held Feb. 24 to 27 in Dar es Salaam, the bishops expressed a commitment to \u201ccontinued engagement\u201d and announced plans to meet again. They encouraged other bishops to develop similar networks for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/patient-and-holy-listening\/\">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":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[397,648],"class_list":["post-12045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-dissembling","tag-anglican-fudge","tag-dar-es-salaam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045","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=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}