{"id":19034,"date":"2013-03-19T16:51:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19034"},"modified":"2013-03-19T16:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:51:59","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-is-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-is-restructuring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada is \u201crestructuring\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read all about it <a href=\"http:\/\/episcopaldigitalnetwork.com\/ens\/2013\/03\/18\/initial-structural-changes-recommended-for-anglican-church-of-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In what I can only assume was an unguarded moment, Archbishop Colin Johnson let slip the real reason for the reorganisation: not to spread the Gospel more effectively or even to dabble more fervently in a spot of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.ca\/about\/ccc\/pmej\/\" target=\"_blank\">ecojustice<\/a>\u201d, but to <i>survive<\/i>. After all, no church, no clergy stipend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Archbishop Colin Johnson, diocesan bishop of the diocese of Toronto and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, said the work of restructuring was \u201ca lot like trying to lose weight.\u201d Even losing a few pounds by giving up on some sweets, cutting down on meat and potatoes, and exercising more means one \u201cwill last longer,\u201d said Johnson, who is also a member of the structures working group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read all about it here. In what I can only assume was an unguarded moment, Archbishop Colin Johnson let slip the real reason for the reorganisation: not to spread the Gospel more effectively or even to dabble more fervently in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-is-restructuring\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,617],"class_list":["post-19034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-cogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034","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=19034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}