{"id":21104,"date":"2014-03-13T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21104"},"modified":"2014-03-13T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T14:40:45","slug":"creeping-congregationalism-in-the-diocese-of-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/creeping-congregationalism-in-the-diocese-of-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Creeping Congregationalism in the Diocese of BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview, the new bishop of the Diocese of BC,\u00a0Logan McMenamie, mentions that the diocese is suffering from <i>negativity<\/i> and <i>creeping congregationalism<\/i>. Although the latter sounds a little like a skin disease, it is actually an understandable response to the diocese <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-bc\/the-diocese-of-bc-selling-churches\/\" target=\"_blank\">taking parish buildings<\/a> from congregations that paid for and maintained them and selling them for its own gain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21106\" alt=\"Logan McMenamie\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Logan-McMenamie.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"151\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/bc.anglican.ca\/sites\/bc.anglican.ca\/files\/diocesan_post\/diocesanpostwebmarchissue.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> <i>(page 5)<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will continue to have some challenges to face but I feel they can be addressed. Some of the things the clergy talked about were lone ranger parishes, creeping congregationalism and negativity. I believe we can turn this around in a positive way and see these as opportunities for growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview, the new bishop of the Diocese of BC,\u00a0Logan McMenamie, mentions that the diocese is suffering from negativity and creeping congregationalism. Although the latter sounds a little like a skin disease, it is actually an understandable response to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/creeping-congregationalism-in-the-diocese-of-bc\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[2104,1324],"class_list":["post-21104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-bc","tag-diocese-of-bc","tag-rev-logan-mcmenamie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104","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=21104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}