{"id":2155,"date":"2009-01-23T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T02:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2009-01-23T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T02:11:05","slug":"shamans-and-anglican-bishops-in-mystical-ecstasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/shamans-and-anglican-bishops-in-mystical-ecstasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamans and Anglican Priests in Mystical Ecstasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/574207\" target=\"_blank\">Kenya<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bulls and goats were slaughtered for feasts in Kenya, toasts were offered at black-tie balls in Europe and shamans in Latin America chanted Barack Obama&#8217;s name with reverence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfaith.org\/2009\/01\/23\/us-election-redemptive-says-black-priest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clapham<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A senior Church of England priest has hailed the election and inauguration of black American president Barack Obama as a &#8216;redemptive moment&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is easy to overlook the shamanic fideism but an Anglican priest &#8211; even a half-witted Western specimen &#8211; should realise that redemption comes from Jesus alone, not from a politician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From \u00a0Kenya: Bulls and goats were slaughtered for feasts in Kenya, toasts were offered at black-tie balls in Europe and shamans in Latin America chanted Barack Obama&#8217;s name with reverence. To Clapham: A senior Church of England priest has hailed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/shamans-and-anglican-bishops-in-mystical-ecstasy\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[1280,2267],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-rectors-gone-wild","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","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=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}