{"id":23553,"date":"2015-11-16T08:16:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23553"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T13:18:15","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-to-use-indaba-groups-for-same-sex-blessing-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-to-use-indaba-groups-for-same-sex-blessing-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada to use indaba groups for same-sex blessing vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whole idea of the indaba groups is to <em>create a climate of respect<\/em> during which delegates put on a display of hugging, crying and earnest pondering while, in the background, there are secret machinations to pass the same-sex marriage motion and once again bamboozle the few remaining hapless conservatives still clinging to risible notion that the ACoC bears a passing resemblance to a Christian church.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/keeping-the-peace-in-2016\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Council of General Synod (CoGS) has stressed that delegates to the 2016 General Synod need space, time, and appropriate preparation in order to keep discussions around same-sex marriage from becoming antagonistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of an <em>indaba <\/em>process or a Sacred Circle type of process is going to create a climate of respect,\u201d said Don Wilson, of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia. \u201cThere is a view of some that the revisionists are heretical and the traditionalists are stuck in the past, and if we can get beyond that and into a kind of respect, it could smooth things out.\u201d (<em>Indaba<\/em> is a Zulu word for decision-making by consensus. The Indigenous Sacred Circle often involves the process of talking circles.)<\/p>\n<p>Though the resolution that brought the issue before General Synod ultimately requires delegates to give either a \u201cyes\u201d or a \u201cno,\u201d CoGS has vowed to make the conversation leading up to that vote as non-adversarial as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole idea of the indaba groups is to create a climate of respect during which delegates put on a display of hugging, crying and earnest pondering while, in the background, there are secret machinations to pass the same-sex marriage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-to-use-indaba-groups-for-same-sex-blessing-vote\/\">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":[2032,1724],"class_list":["post-23553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-same-sex-marrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553","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=23553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}