{"id":21160,"date":"2014-03-19T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T16:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21160"},"modified":"2014-03-19T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T16:18:24","slug":"bishop-melissa-skelton-its-a-thing-called-discernment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-melissa-skelton-its-a-thing-called-discernment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Melissa Skelton: it\u2019s a thing called discernment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skelton was recently interviewed by the CBC (listen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/earlyedition\/pastepisodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, March 18 starting at 2:17:00). Her appointment as bishop, she tells us, was the result of \u201ca thing called discernment\u201d; nothing to do with a thing called career advancement ambition. Well, she didn\u2019t actually make the latter remark.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, she states once again that she is fully supportive of the blessing of same-sex unions and that there is no longer much of a wedge between those who support same-sex unions and those who don\u2019t. She has reached this conclusion by <i>listening; <\/i>to whom, I wonder? Obviously not to those who left the diocese over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Losing the majority of those with whom one disagrees and calling it &#8220;healing&#8221; would, in the secular realm, be a thing called <i>spin.<\/i> In the Diocese of New Westminster where selective listening is such a refined art, it\u2019s a thing called discernment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skelton was recently interviewed by the CBC (listen here, March 18 starting at 2:17:00). Her appointment as bishop, she tells us, was the result of \u201ca thing called discernment\u201d; nothing to do with a thing called career advancement ambition. Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-melissa-skelton-its-a-thing-called-discernment\/\">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":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[1765,2110],"class_list":["post-21160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-bishop-melissa-skelton","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21160","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=21160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}