{"id":14024,"date":"2011-08-29T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T21:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14024"},"modified":"2011-08-29T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T21:27:38","slug":"diocese-of-huron-is-ready-to-grow-now-its-rid-of-its-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-huron-is-ready-to-grow-now-its-rid-of-its-evangelicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Huron is ready to grow now it\u2019s rid of its evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsorstar.com\/life\/Bishop+marks+church+beginning\/5321347\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After an almost decade-long rift among Anglicans that led to a breakaway group trying and failing to gain control of a Windsor church, Rev. Robert Bennett says the diocese is ready to move on and &#8220;regrow.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had <em>no idea<\/em> that the parishioners of St. Aidan\u2019s, Windsor were the reason the Diocese of Huron was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.diohuron.org\/2011\/05\/land-property-closed-church-items.html\" target=\"_blank\">busily closing parishes<\/a>. In my na\u00efvety, I had assumed that, like many other Anglican Church of Canada dioceses, they were so obsessed with being inclusive that almost everyone had lost interest and left.<\/p>\n<p>But no! It was really those pesky fundamentalists in St. Aidan\u2019s holding the diocese back; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanessentials.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/08\/18\/anic-news-release-ontario-superior-court-deprives-congregation-of-church-property\/\" target=\"_blank\">now they are gone<\/a>, the diocese can focus on being <em>really<\/em> inclusive and start growing. Hallelujah.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: After an almost decade-long rift among Anglicans that led to a breakaway group trying and failing to gain control of a Windsor church, Rev. Robert Bennett says the diocese is ready to move on and &#8220;regrow.&#8221; I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-huron-is-ready-to-grow-now-its-rid-of-its-evangelicals\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[1481],"class_list":["post-14024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-huron","tag-st-aidans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024","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=14024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}