{"id":17756,"date":"2012-10-27T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17756"},"modified":"2012-10-27T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T04:01:14","slug":"the-diocese-of-edmonton-consigns-itself-to-historys-dustbin-as-it-converses-itself-into-irrelevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-edmonton-consigns-itself-to-historys-dustbin-as-it-converses-itself-into-irrelevance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of Edmonton consigns itself to history\u2019s church dustbin as it converses itself into irrelevance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief perusal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/edmonton.anglican.org\/pdf\/Messenger\/12_Messenger_November_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">diocesan rag<\/a> reveals:<\/p>\n<p>The diocese voted by 80% laity and 70% clergy to bless same-sex liaisons, demonstrating the lemming like instinct of catering to 0.69% of couples at the expense of 99.31% of couples. This calls for a &#8220;we are the 99.31%&#8221; Occupation initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop is telling everyone not to worry: she wouldn\u2019t do so if there were not good reasons to worry.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese is convinced that the Gospel has a more than infinitesimally tenuous connection to the Five Marks of Mission.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop makes much of \u201cwalking together\u201d and \u201cfinding common ground\u201d \u2013 clearly, she  didn\u2019t notice how well that worked for Rowan Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the diocese has <em>\u201c<\/em><em>embraced a proactive approach to ministry\u201d<\/em>; it obviously believes that committing verbicide in the interests of maximising incoherence is going to help.<\/p>\n<p>The expected clich\u00e9s are scattered with abandon throughout the paper: \u201cstanding together against global injustice\u201d;  <em>\u201c<\/em>sustain and renew the life of the earth\u201d;  \u201csafeguarding creation&#8221;; &#8220;transforming unjust structures of society&#8221;; &#8220;fair trade diocese&#8221; \u2026. And so on, forever and ever awomen.<\/p>\n<p>All that is missing is the only thing that is needed: a desire to bring people to reconciliation with God the Father through the atoning sacrifice of God the Son in order that they might attain life everlasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief perusal of the diocesan rag reveals: The diocese voted by 80% laity and 70% clergy to bless same-sex liaisons, demonstrating the lemming like instinct of catering to 0.69% of couples at the expense of 99.31% of couples. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-edmonton-consigns-itself-to-historys-dustbin-as-it-converses-itself-into-irrelevance\/\">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":[106],"tags":[2107,1386],"class_list":["post-17756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-edmonton","tag-diocese-of-edmonton","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756","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=17756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}