{"id":18196,"date":"2012-12-10T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18196"},"modified":"2012-12-10T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T03:39:13","slug":"professor-of-church-history-says-anic-really-is-anglican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/professor-of-church-history-says-anic-really-is-anglican\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor of church history says ANiC really is Anglican"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something that sticks in the craw of the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s leadership is what the \u201cA\u201d stands for in \u201cANiC\u201d. Thus, a group of Diocese of Niagara clergy complained<\/a> when a local paper, the Burlington Post, referred to a new ANiC church building as \u201cAnglican\u201d.<\/p>\n

Canon Alan Hayes, a professor of church history at Wycliffe, has defended ANiC\u2019s claim to be Anglican in the Diocese of Niagara\u2019s paper.<\/p>\n

I had a chat over coffee with Alan Hayes a few years back; he was an affable fellow who lamented the diminishment of diversity within the ACoC after the departure of the ANiC parishes. While I\u2019m keen to be able to call the church I belong to Christian<\/em>, I\u2019m not too concerned about whether it is generally recognised as being Anglican<\/em> or not. Nevertheless, since it causes the opposition such consternation, I will continue to insist that it is, in fact,\u00a0Anglican.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think<\/em> he was fired for consorting with the enemy.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a> (page3):<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still digesting the letter you reprinted from some senior Burlington clergy to the Burlington Post <\/em>differentiating ACC Anglicans from ANC Anglicans.<\/p>\n

I hope that this doesn\u2019t start a pattern where ELCIC Lutherans will write in to distinguish themselves from Missouri Synod Lutherans, PAOC Pentecostals from Four-Square Pentecostals, BCOQ Baptists from Fellowship Baptists, CCC Congregationalists from unaffiliated Congregationalists, Free Methodists from Wesleyan Methodists, Roman Catholics from Old Catholics, MCC Mennonites from Old Order Mennonites, OCA Orthodox from ethnic Orthodox, PCC Presbyterians from RPCNA Presbyterians, CRC Reformed from RCA Reformed \u2014the permutations are almost endless.<\/p>\n

Come on, Burlington Post<\/em>! Pay attention to our schisms! Can it have escaped you how important they are?<\/p>\n

But, wait. Is it such good strategy for Christians to stomp into the public forum shouting at the top of their lungs, \u201cWE\u2019RE not the same as THEM!\u201d? Have we thought what this sounds like to the world?<\/p>\n

Or, more scripturally, can we find spiritual health in rushing to draw lines of separation between ourselves and \u201cthe other\u201d? Jesus used the parable of the righteous pharisee to answer that one, and Paul taught that we\u2019re all one in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n

They say that one reason the early Church grew so explosively was that outsiders looked in with awe and said, \u201cSee how the Christians love each other!\u201d Now we\u2019re prompting the public to declare, \u201cSee how the Christians really, really don\u2019t get along!\u201d<\/p>\n

How\u2019s that working for us?<\/p>\n

Canon Alan L. Hayes, Oakville<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something that sticks in the craw of the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s leadership is what the \u201cA\u201d stands for in \u201cANiC\u201d. Thus, a group of Diocese of Niagara clergy complained when a local paper, the Burlington Post, referred to a … 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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[553,2111],"class_list":["post-18196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-canon-alan-l-hayes","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196","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=18196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}