{"id":20715,"date":"2013-11-30T23:58:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20715"},"modified":"2013-12-01T14:23:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T19:23:43","slug":"the-diocese-of-new-westminster-has-elected-new-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-has-elected-new-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of New Westminster has elected a new bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver.anglican.ca\/Home\/tabid\/161\/Mode\/ViewArticle\/ArticleId\/1914\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-20716\" alt=\"Melissa Skelton\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melissa-Skelton.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melissa-Skelton.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melissa-Skelton-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/>The Reverend Canon Melissa M Skelton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x0CtpDgA-CA#t=383\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a>, Skelton declares that she wishes to bring <i>\u201crestoration of a sense of feeling and reality of unity in the diocese.\u201d<\/i> Clearly, she supports the Ingham decisions that split the diocese, since she believes that the diocese was <em>\u201ccalled\u201d<\/em> \u2013 presumably by God \u2013 to go <i>\u201cdown that road.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Her recipe for <i>\u201cthe re-unification of the diocese\u201d <\/i>is <i>listening <\/i>by using<i> circle processes<\/i>. I\u2019m not sure what she means by <i>circle processes<\/i> &#8211; other than going around in circles, an activity at which Anglicans have had plenty of practice, particularly when pretending to <em>listen<\/em>. Doubtless, a veneer of unity won\u2019t be too hard to manufacture since the most vigorous dissenters from diocesan dogma have already left. Those who remain will be too timid to make much of a fuss, contenting themselves, instead, with their appointed role of token conservatives: evidence of diocesan diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Skelton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bishopsearchnj.org\/election-report-english.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">was hoping<\/a> to be bishop of New Jersey; New Westminster, with its <i>\u201cdifficult 20 years\u201d<\/i>, must have been her second career choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reverend Canon Melissa M Skelton. In this video, Skelton declares that she wishes to bring \u201crestoration of a sense of feeling and reality of unity in the diocese.\u201d Clearly, she supports the Ingham decisions that split the diocese, since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-has-elected-new-bishop\/\">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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[2110,1732],"class_list":["post-20715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-melissa-m-skelton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715","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=20715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}