{"id":22253,"date":"2014-11-25T22:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22253"},"modified":"2014-11-25T22:40:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:40:57","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-and-the-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-canada-to-combine-synods-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-and-the-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-canada-to-combine-synods-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada to combine synods in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conjoining of the likeminded, a consolidation of withering, a pooling of unbelief, a unified witness of doubt to an indifferent world, a belated smokescreen to conceal decades of intellectual inbreeding.<\/p>\n<p>Or, perhaps, a desperate attempt to endure for a few more years.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/joint-assembly-planned-for-2019\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> below makes it clear that this has nothing to do with <em>survival<\/em>; nothing at all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) have approved in principle a plan to hold a second joint assembly in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Hiltz said the report <em>[a report from the Joint Anglican and Lutheran Commission]<\/em> emphasized the point that for the majority of those ministries, the choice to work together was made from \u201ca position of strength for common witness,\u201d not from a survivalist point of view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conjoining of the likeminded, a consolidation of withering, a pooling of unbelief, a unified witness of doubt to an indifferent world, a belated smokescreen to conceal decades of intellectual inbreeding. Or, perhaps, a desperate attempt to endure for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-and-the-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-canada-to-combine-synods-in-2019\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,740,1250],"class_list":["post-22253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-canada","tag-primate-fred-hiltz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253","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=22253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}