{"id":17113,"date":"2012-08-02T21:53:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17113"},"modified":"2012-08-02T21:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T01:53:09","slug":"50-shades-of-grey-in-the-diocese-of-huron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/50-shades-of-grey-in-the-diocese-of-huron\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Shades of Grey in the Diocese of Huron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know none of the antics of the Anglican Church of Canada should really surprise me, but they continue to try. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronyn.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church<\/a> in the Diocese of Huron has plagiarised the title of popular pornographic pulp to entice people into its pews. As the rector says: \u201cHave you read the Bible lately? Very sexually explicit at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I understand that next Sunday\u2019s reading is from chapter 3 &#8211; not the Bible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17116 aligncenter\" title=\"50-shades-of-gray\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/50-shades-of-gray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/metronews.ca\/news\/london\/319958\/50-shades-of-grey-now-in-a-london-church\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A local church marquee is turning heads in London with a racy reference to the popular erotic novel <em>50 Shades of Grey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For the past week, the sign outside Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church has read \u201c50 shades of grace\u201d\u2014a play on the title of E. L. James\u2019s breakthrough book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intention is that as the book talks about intimate relationships with an unusual twist, so the sign talks about an intimate relationship with God that has a twist,\u201d said Rev. Raemond Fletcher, who got the idea for the sign from a fellow Anglican priest in town. \u201cGod\u2019s grace is not only of one shade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher said he hoped the sign would also send a message that the church was not out of touch. \u201cThe church (or at least some churches) are not afraid to recognize that sexuality plays a significant role in modern society, but that it should not be a matter of grey areas but of grace.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Crosspost from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanessentials.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/02\/50-shades-of-grey-now-in-a-london-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">AEC blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know none of the antics of the Anglican Church of Canada should really surprise me, but they continue to try. The Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church in the Diocese of Huron has plagiarised the title of popular pornographic pulp to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/50-shades-of-grey-in-the-diocese-of-huron\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[636,2108],"class_list":["post-17113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-huron","tag-cronyn-memorial-church","tag-diocese-of-huron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113","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=17113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}