{"id":17068,"date":"2012-07-30T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17068"},"modified":"2012-07-30T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T20:40:24","slug":"according-to-the-aca-the-diocese-of-torontos-gift-of-250000-to-the-diocese-of-new-westminster-was-a-tithe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/according-to-the-aca-the-diocese-of-torontos-gift-of-250000-to-the-diocese-of-new-westminster-was-a-tithe\/","title":{"rendered":"According to the ACA, the Diocese of Toronto's gift of $250,000 to the Diocese of New Westminster was a tithe"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned here<\/a>, \u201cthe Diocese of Toronto\u2019s Bishop Colin Johnson has paid Bishop Michael Ingham $250,000 for being the Canadian test case in the building dispute between the ACoC and ANiC. \u2026. the ruling sets a Canadian precedent, effectively guaranteeing that the ACoC will be able to hang on to church properties \u2013 so that they can close<\/a> and sell them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rev. Dr. Murray Henderson from the Anglican Communion Alliance, a conservative group within the Anglican Church of Canada, has made a rather extraordinary statement<\/a> about what he calls this \u00a0\u201ctithe\u201d to New Westminster:<\/p>\n

I further advocated at the Council Meeting that the announcement of the gift make it clear that this was not our taking a stand on the issue of same sex blessing, but strictly a matter of paying our fair share as a diocese and parishes which are interested in maintaining our ownership of our property. The Archbishop made this clear in his announcement last Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is evident he does not wish the Diocese of Toronto\u2019s payment to be a condoning of same-sex blessings \u2013 even though the diocese is actively engaged in performing them \u2013 but, rather, wants to pay a \u201cfair share\u201d of the litigation cost of ejecting worshipping congregations from buildings for which they have a use to place them in the hands of dioceses who are allowing them to stand empty.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not entirely clear to me whether it is worse to bless same-sex couples or turf fellow Christians out of their buildings but evidently, it is to Rev. Henderson: how far would he take it, one wonders? Would he be content to see all<\/em> parish buildings stand empty so long as his diocese retains ownership of them and has not taken a \u201cstand\u201d on same-sex blessings \u2013 even though, to the un-blinkered it obviously has<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Not only does the ACA statement illustrate the impotence of struggling conservatives in the ACoC but it bodes ill for any plausible possibility of a conservative come-back within the church. To make it worse, I fear Rev. Henderson has strained out a gnat (albeit a big hairy one) and swallowed a camel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned here, \u201cthe Diocese of Toronto\u2019s Bishop Colin Johnson has paid Bishop Michael Ingham $250,000 for being the Canadian test case in the building dispute between the ACoC and ANiC. \u2026. the ruling sets a Canadian precedent, effectively … 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":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[338,2110,2114,1310,1386],"class_list":["post-17068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-communion-alliance","tag-aca","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-diocese-of-toronto","tag-rev-dr-murray-henderson","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068","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=17068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}