{"id":15152,"date":"2011-12-16T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15152"},"modified":"2011-12-16T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T04:08:00","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-desperately-seeking-real-and-deeper-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-desperately-seeking-real-and-deeper-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada desperately seeking real and deeper meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Christmas-Billboard-2011-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"210\" \/> Canada, in the form of Archdeacon Paul Feheley, has waded into the controversy over an Aukland church\u2019s <a href=\"..\/barmy-clergymen\/and-now-for-a-completely-different-annunciation\/\" target=\"_blank\">depiction of the Annunciation<\/a> on a billboard.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/1103531--virgin-mary-s-surprise-pregnancy-test-shocks?bn=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The church has said the billboard is intended to provoke debate, a goal that Archdeacon Paul Feheley, principal secretary to the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, supports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting people to think about the real and deeper meaning of these events is a really good thing,\u201d Feheley said. \u201cWill it make some uncomfortable? Of course it will. But any thought-provoking ad does that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christians believe that Mary was a virgin, was impregnated by the Holy Spirit and gave birth to Jesus, the Son of God: a virgin gave birth to baby who was 100% human and 100% God. The question I have for Paul Feheley is: \u201cwhat meaning could he possibly ascribe to the event that would be more \u2018real\u2019 or \u2018deeper\u2019 than that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EC68 4869 877U S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Canada, in the form of Archdeacon Paul Feheley, has waded into the controversy over an Aukland church\u2019s depiction of the Annunciation on a billboard. From here: The church has said the billboard is intended to provoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-desperately-seeking-real-and-deeper-meaning\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1531],"class_list":["post-15152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-the-virgin-birth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152","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=15152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}