{"id":24075,"date":"2016-07-08T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24075"},"modified":"2016-07-08T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T00:00:32","slug":"reaction-to-fred-hiltzs-presidential-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/reaction-to-fred-hiltzs-presidential-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to Fred Hiltz\u2019s presidential address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the predictable sycophancy from Hiltz&#8217;s employees, the youth delegate from the Diocese of Caledonia \u2013 one of the few dioceses to have a theologically conservative bishop \u2013 hits the nail on the head. The address was tendentious.<\/p>\n<p>Rather comically, there is a comment under the article that claims the bias is not only acceptable but required because, under canon law, the primate is supposed to <em>speak and write prophetically to the Anglican Church of Canada. <\/em>\u00a0It must be pure coincidence that this is the first time ever that a \u201cprophecy\u201d has been lifted wholesale from contemporary secular values.<\/p>\n<p>Read all the reactions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/what-stood-out-for-you-in-the-primate-s-address\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Asher Worley, youth delegate, diocese of Caledonia<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>For me, basically, he clearly had an agenda, and in my view, the chairperson\u2014the chairman of a meeting like this\u2014simply needs to be more neutral, so I felt that he was being inappropriate in that way. He had his opinion, and it wasn\u2019t veiled. I guess that it wasn\u2019t veiled is a good thing, but that he had an opinion in the first place, and that he expressed it, was, I believe, inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>What he said was not unexpected, but it wasn\u2019t\u2014let\u2019s put it this way: I don\u2019t agree. I\u2019m trying to think of a way to put this so that I\u2019m not being rude or discourteous. I was looking for a more neutral, this is what we\u2019re doing, but we have to still be in God\u2019s Word, and we have to be searching the Scriptures, because as a church, our main objective is to preach God\u2019s Word\u2014so it was just not what I was looking for in my primate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the predictable sycophancy from Hiltz&#8217;s employees, the youth delegate from the Diocese of Caledonia \u2013 one of the few dioceses to have a theologically conservative bishop \u2013 hits the nail on the head. The address was tendentious. Rather comically, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/reaction-to-fred-hiltzs-presidential-address\/\">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":[16],"tags":[2370,1250],"class_list":["post-24075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-gs2016","tag-primate-fred-hiltz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075","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=24075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}