{"id":15484,"date":"2012-01-24T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15484"},"modified":"2012-01-24T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:06:14","slug":"some-parishes-in-the-diocese-of-niagara-want-to-get-rid-of-their-clergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/some-parishes-in-the-diocese-of-niagara-want-to-get-rid-of-their-clergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Some parishes in the Diocese of Niagara want to get rid of their clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their zeal to be frugal, it seems that some Niagara parishes are considering firing their clergy. Bishop Michael Bird isn\u2019t happy with this and has sent out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/bishopStaff\/docs\/2012\/Information%20regarding%20Annual%20Vestry%20Meetings%20in%20the%20Diocese%20of%20Niagara%20%282%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> scolding parishes tempted to subvert his vision of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/vision\/stewardship.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Generous Culture of Stewardship<\/a> in this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have heard of several parishes that are considering a motion at their Annual Vestry meeting to reduce the level of clergy staffing to save money in the parish budget. We want to remind clergy and churchwardens that the appointment of licensed clergy and lay workers and the conditions of their employment are under the purview of the Bishop (not the Vestry). To entertain such a motion has ethical and legal implications, reaching far beyond budgetary concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Impecunious parishes need not despair, though: the letter goes on to offer a vague hope of diocesan assistance. I expect the bishop will be donating a portion of his $112,000 stipend to flagging congregations. Those wishing to apply for grants should send an email to: <span \n                data-original-string='U3N1sJijLn\/sh\/K2VNYTBA==641maLrbdulmbwgWm0FA4te\/x\/fFyXx6vf3esKdY0fAEiQ='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>bi<span class=\"apbct-blur\">****<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">**************<\/span>an.ca<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their zeal to be frugal, it seems that some Niagara parishes are considering firing their clergy. Bishop Michael Bird isn\u2019t happy with this and has sent out a letter scolding parishes tempted to subvert his vision of a Generous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/some-parishes-in-the-diocese-of-niagara-want-to-get-rid-of-their-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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-15484","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\/15484","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=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}