{"id":15895,"date":"2012-03-11T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T23:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15895"},"modified":"2012-03-11T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T23:24:01","slug":"rev-james-ferry-and-archbishop-terence-finlay-kiss-and-make-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-james-ferry-and-archbishop-terence-finlay-kiss-and-make-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. James Ferry and Archbishop Terence Finlay kiss and make up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15898\" title=\"Anglican Ferry\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Anglican-Ferry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/>20 years ago Terence Finlay fired James Ferry because he had a homosexual lover. Now, they have reconciled \u2013 more because of a change of heart on the part of the archbishop than the priest, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>All this goes to show how much has changed in the Anglican Church of Canada: today homosexual \u00a0priests are not only welcome, but they often seem to be preferred candidates for vacant positions. I am sure the ACoC views this as a necessary corrective: in actual fact it is more an act of obeisance to the Zeitgeist.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1143921--toronto-gay-priest-james-ferry-and-former-anglican-archbishop-terence-finlay-reconcile\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two Toronto clergymen are by now so inextricably linked that they\u2019re bound to appear prominently in each other\u2019s obituaries. They know that.<\/p>\n<p>But Terence Finlay and James Ferry do not want a confrontation 20 years ago \u2014 one that scandalized the traditional and appalled the progressive in the Anglican Church \u2014 to define them.<\/p>\n<p>As of next Sunday, when they participate in a rare public service of personal reconciliation at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Finlay and Ferry hope the relationship will be known for more redeeming reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 years ago Terence Finlay fired James Ferry because he had a homosexual lover. Now, they have reconciled \u2013 more because of a change of heart on the part of the archbishop than the priest, it seems. All this goes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-james-ferry-and-archbishop-terence-finlay-kiss-and-make-up\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[428,2166,1318],"class_list":["post-15895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexual-priests","tag-archbishop-terence-finlay","tag-homosexual-priests","tag-rev-james-ferry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15895","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=15895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}