{"id":24753,"date":"2017-02-07T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24753"},"modified":"2017-02-07T16:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:10:51","slug":"diocese-of-huron-closures-building-sales-amalgamations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-huron-closures-building-sales-amalgamations\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Huron: closures, building sales, amalgamations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gloomy picture is emerging from the Diocese of Huron: there are too many buildings, too few people and too many congregations that cannot afford to pay for their priest or maintain their buildings.<br \/>\nBishop Linda Nicholls, recently imported from the Diocese of Toronto, has inherited the mess and will be encouraging parishes to start \u201cthe difficult conversations themselves \u2013 at least initially\u201d. Or else.<br \/>\nThe blame for all this is being placed on \u201csocial transformation\u201d; nothing whatever to do with replacing the Gospel with leftist political agitation laced with religionless spirituality.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bmplayer-a.akamaihd.net\/shareable\/embedssl.html?dc=ctvnews_web&amp;cid=1021846&amp;col=379&amp;w=480&amp;h=270&amp;pl=0&amp;plh=0&amp;adSite=ctv.ctvnewslondon&amp;adZone=latestnews&amp;omniAcct=ctvgmnews,ctvgmnewsglobalsuite&amp;section=London&amp;site=london&amp;shareUrl=http:\/\/london.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=1021846&amp;v7=video&amp;v8=home&amp;v9=&amp;v10=\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nicholls is doing her best to be relevant to the culture, though &#8211; some might say to the extent of being subsumed in it. Here she is at her arrival in the diocese marching under a brolly across a rainbow coloured cross-walk, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfpress.com\/2016\/05\/24\/a-council-committee-has-endorsed-turning-two-crosswalks-into-rainbow-coloured-tributes-to-the-london-pride-festival\" target=\"_blank\">tribute to London&#8217;s annual gay pride cavorting<\/a>. If that doesn&#8217;t pull them in and reverse the decline, nothing will.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24758\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lgbt-cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"877\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lgbt-cross.jpg 877w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lgbt-cross-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lgbt-cross-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lgbt-cross-407x300.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gloomy picture is emerging from the Diocese of Huron: there are too many buildings, too few people and too many congregations that cannot afford to pay for their priest or maintain their buildings. Bishop Linda Nicholls, recently imported from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-huron-closures-building-sales-amalgamations\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[498],"class_list":["post-24753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-huron","tag-bishop-linda-nicholls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753","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=24753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}