{"id":20401,"date":"2013-09-29T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T21:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20401"},"modified":"2013-09-29T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T21:29:18","slug":"today-was-back-to-church-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/today-was-back-to-church-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Today was \u201cBack to Church Sunday\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Church Sunday is not to be confused with returning to Christ, of course; this is, after all, the Canadian Anglican Church.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 Toronto bishops dressed up in all their finery and handed out leaflets outside Union Station:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20402\" alt=\"29-09-2013 5-05-55 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/29-09-2013-5-05-55-PM.jpg\" width=\"2443\" height=\"1423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/29-09-2013-5-05-55-PM.jpg 2443w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/29-09-2013-5-05-55-PM-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/29-09-2013-5-05-55-PM-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/29-09-2013-5-05-55-PM-500x291.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2443px) 100vw, 2443px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There hasn\u2019t been a repeat performance by the bishops. As one observer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mKmrY8Q9jY4\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well intentioned, but . . well, those of my friends who are not now churchgoers wouldn&#8217;t go to church because a scary, robed bishop gave them a leaflet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He has a point: the Anglican Church of Canada in its desperate quest for <i>relevance,<\/i> contorts its beliefs to accommodate contemporary culture \u2013 from same-sex marriage to there being many ways to God to having no set dogma at all, just <i>community<\/i> whose commonality is doctrinal incoherence.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that visibly separates bishops from the common herd is the one thing they won\u2019t give up: dressing up in robes and pointy hats. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Church Sunday is not to be confused with returning to Christ, of course; this is, after all, the Canadian Anglican Church. In 2009 Toronto bishops dressed up in all their finery and handed out leaflets outside Union Station: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/today-was-back-to-church-sunday\/\">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":[16],"tags":[2032,456],"class_list":["post-20401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-back-to-church-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401","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=20401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}