{"id":23709,"date":"2016-01-14T12:57:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23709"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:01:14","slug":"michael-coren-cant-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/michael-coren-cant-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Coren can\u2019t count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This shouldn\u2019t come as a complete surprise, since most of his other reasoning faculties abandoned him, too, when he converted to liberalism. In <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/michael-coren-can-anglicans-bridge-their-gay-rights-divide\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> predictably tendentious article about the Canterbury Primates\u2019 gathering, he calls ACNA &#8220;a small group of Anglicans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ACNA presently has over 100,000 members and an average Sunday attendance of over 80,000, numbers that approach, if not exceed (who knows, the ACoC is too shy to publish statistics) those of the entire Anglican Church of Canada \u2013 to which Coren has just joined himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up to now small groups of Anglicans, including a fringe in Canada, have left the communion over more progressive positions around sexuality, and while there has never been a central authority or leadership resembling that of Roman Catholicism, there is now a severe risk of a formal break between the Western churches and many of those in the developing world. What has traditionally been a loose but warm collective could become an absolute separation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>&#8220;fringe in Canada&#8221; <\/em>would be ANiC, the Christian version of Canadian Anglicanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shouldn\u2019t come as a complete surprise, since most of his other reasoning faculties abandoned him, too, when he converted to liberalism. In this predictably tendentious article about the Canterbury Primates\u2019 gathering, he calls ACNA &#8220;a small group of Anglicans\u201d. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/michael-coren-cant-count\/\">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":[5],"tags":[2023,2037,1079],"class_list":["post-23709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acna","tag-acna","tag-anic","tag-michael-coren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23709","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=23709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}