{"id":20707,"date":"2013-11-29T22:47:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T03:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20707"},"modified":"2013-11-29T22:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T03:47:52","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-emphasising-community-over-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-emphasising-community-over-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara emphasising community over truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakville church has been distributing flyers designed to entice the unwary into its sanctuary. The main selling point is that you can make new friends and join a community without having to believe anything in particular. I doubt that this strategy will work since it faces strong competition from the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.hipinfo.info\/record\/OAK0942\" target=\"_blank\">Oakville Lawn Bowling Club<\/a>: you can make new friends there, too, get more exercise when bowling and &#8211; there is <em>&#8220;No Need to Believe!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The flyer points out: <em>&#8220;If you come away believing&#8230;. hey, that&#8217;s a bonus!&#8221; <\/em>As in lawn bowling, it doesn&#8217;t matter <em>what<\/em> you come away believing because it&#8217;s the <em>community<\/em> that is important, not boring doctrinal trivia.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Social-Club.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20708\" alt=\"Social-Club\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Social-Club.jpg\" width=\"2938\" height=\"3386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Social-Club.jpg 2938w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Social-Club-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Social-Club-888x1024.jpg 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2938px) 100vw, 2938px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakville church has been distributing flyers designed to entice the unwary into its sanctuary. The main selling point is that you can make new friends and join a community without having to believe anything in particular. I doubt that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-emphasising-community-over-truth\/\">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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111,1730],"class_list":["post-20707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-incarnation-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707","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=20707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}