{"id":20915,"date":"2014-01-10T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20915"},"modified":"2014-01-10T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T19:31:57","slug":"new-diocese-of-new-westminster-bishop-to-do-problem-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/new-diocese-of-new-westminster-bishop-to-do-problem-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Diocese of New Westminster bishop to do problem diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of New Westminster\u2019s new bishop, Rev. Melissa Skelton, is aware that her new diocese has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/british-columbia\/a-bishop-with-business-sense\/article16182397\/\" target=\"_blank\">few problems<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How much work do you have to do in healing the effects of the same-sex union issue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my first year, that\u2019s something I\u2019ve got to figure out. I\u2019ve heard there\u2019s still a sense of hurt and difficulty in parishes around that. I have an organization development background, and I think the first thing one does in any kind of organization development work is what, in some ways, is called diagnosis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To help with the \u201cdiagnosis\u201d I\u2019d like to point out: the blessing of same-sex unions in the Diocese of New Westminster precipitated a split in the Anglican Church of Canada, a split which has made a significant contribution to worldwide Anglican schism; the loss of thousands of Canadian Anglicans to ANiC; the loss of the largest congregation in Canada; acrimonious lawsuits; a substantial loss of revenue for the ACoC; the firing of clergy \u2013 including the world\u2019s best known Anglican evangelical theologian &#8211; by the diocese; and the unedifying spectacle of ACoC bishops and clergy behaving like spoiled children who don\u2019t get their own way.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I expect all that is pretty obvious to someone with an \u201corganization development background\u201d; enjoy your new organization and keep us all posted on how the <i>healing<\/i> is going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of New Westminster\u2019s new bishop, Rev. Melissa Skelton, is aware that her new diocese has a few problems: How much work do you have to do in healing the effects of the same-sex union issue? In my first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/new-diocese-of-new-westminster-bishop-to-do-problem-diagnosis\/\">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":[109],"tags":[2110,1752],"class_list":["post-20915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-rev-melissa-skelton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915","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=20915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}