{"id":24057,"date":"2016-07-07T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24057"},"modified":"2016-07-07T21:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:32:34","slug":"for-the-thing-which-i-greatly-feared-is-come-upon-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/for-the-thing-which-i-greatly-feared-is-come-upon-me\/","title":{"rendered":"For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And that which I was afraid of is come unto me. <em>Job 3:25.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do Anglican Church of Canada clergy fear most? Losing their stipend.<\/p>\n<p>General Synod 2016 has begun and a vote to change the marriage canon is scheduled for Monday. In the unlikely event it passes, the few remaining conservatives will have yet more incentive to leave. If it fails to pass, many dioceses are determined to proceed with same-sex marriages without the approval of synod. For the national church this would be ideal, since it accomplishes what their leaders want while allowing them to protest that no official approval has been granted. Either result signals further division resulting in more people leaving and less revenue for clergy salaries; a tragedy of biblical proportions. That which the bishops fear most is about to come upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, hot off the press from the synod ostrich farm, we have the quote of the day:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24058\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fear-1024x966.jpg\" alt=\"Fear\" width=\"584\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fear-1024x966.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fear-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fear-768x725.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fear-318x300.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fear.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Job 3:25. What do Anglican Church of Canada clergy fear most? Losing their stipend. General Synod 2016 has begun and a vote to change the marriage canon is scheduled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/for-the-thing-which-i-greatly-feared-is-come-upon-me\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2370,1390],"class_list":["post-24057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-gs2016","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057","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=24057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}