{"id":16229,"date":"2012-04-16T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16229"},"modified":"2012-04-16T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:45:26","slug":"the-diocese-of-new-westminster-doesnt-know-what-scorched-earth-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-doesnt-know-what-scorched-earth-means\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of New Westminster doesn\u2019t know what \u201cscorched earth\u201d means"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a recent diocesan council, the following comments<\/a> were made about the three buildings that were awarded to the diocese as part of its legal action against ANiC:<\/p>\n

Bishop Michael pointed out that DC has spoken in the past and made decisions about the three parishes that are the subject of this plan; St. Matthew\u2019s, Abbotsford, St. Matthias and St. Luke, Oakridge and St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy, primarily regarding funding.<\/p>\n

Bishop Michael reminded DC of Assistant Treasurer Jim Stewart\u2019s words that no diocese has ever planted three churches on \u201cscorched ground\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Jim Stewart and Michael Ingham meant was that there are no people<\/em> in the parishes that reverted to diocesan ownership. That is because the congregations decided that it is better to follow Christ than Ingham and so forfeited their buildings.<\/p>\n

Stewart misquoted: he meant \u201cscorched earth\u201d. \u201cScorched earth<\/a>\u201d is \u201ca military strategy or operational method which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area.\u201d<\/em> Had the parishes adopted a scorched earth policy, they would have set fire to, or otherwise demolished their buildings before they fell into the hands of the enemy. But they didn\u2019t \u2013 they just left.<\/p>\n

Even Jesus left with congregations; not that the diocese would miss him. All that remains is \u2013 as Stewart himself noted<\/a> \u2013 a mausoleum: death and the stench that accompanies it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a recent diocesan council, the following comments were made about the three buildings that were awarded to the diocese as part of its legal action against ANiC: Bishop Michael pointed out that DC has spoken in the past and … Continue reading →<\/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":[109],"tags":[2110,940],"class_list":["post-16229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-jim-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229","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=16229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}