{"id":24055,"date":"2016-07-07T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24055"},"modified":"2016-07-07T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:31:23","slug":"diocese-of-bc-has-a-pride-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-bc-has-a-pride-eucharist\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of BC has a Pride Eucharist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Church Cathedral had a Eucharist to celebrate the \u201c<em>rich diversity of sexual and gender identity\u201d<\/em> \u2013 because that, after all, is what Christianity has <em>really<\/em> always been about \u2013 and the<em> \u201cinclusion, welcome and celebration for all people\u201d &#8211; <\/em>except for the recalcitrant remnant who are still not convinced that God is subject to the cultural whimsy of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/opinion\/blogs\/spiritually-speaking\/moving-from-shame-to-pride-1.2295306\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week, Pride week, the Anglican Churches in the Diocese of British Columbia have been taking an active part in celebrating the rich diversity of sexual and gender identity which is so much a part of the Pride ethos.\u00a0 On Tuesday 5<sup>th<\/sup> July there was held, in Christ Church Cathedral on Quadra, a Pride Eucharist \u2013 where candles were lit in hope of inclusion, welcome and celebration for all people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Church Cathedral had a Eucharist to celebrate the \u201crich diversity of sexual and gender identity\u201d \u2013 because that, after all, is what Christianity has really always been about \u2013 and the \u201cinclusion, welcome and celebration for all people\u201d &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-bc-has-a-pride-eucharist\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[2104,2368,2369],"class_list":["post-24055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-bc","tag-diocese-of-bc","tag-pride-eucharist","tag-rev-alastair-mccollum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24055","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=24055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}