{"id":25429,"date":"2017-10-19T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T02:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25429"},"modified":"2017-10-19T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T02:04:41","slug":"an-anglican-season-of-intentional-drollery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-anglican-season-of-intentional-drollery\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anglican Season of Intentional Drollery"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of years ago, the Anglican Church of Canada launched something called \u201cThe Decade of Evangelism\u201d. I remember it well. Unfortunately.<\/p>\n

After ten years of groping for the real<\/em> meaning of \u201cevangelism\u201d, we came to the conclusion that \u2013 lacking access to even the most basic dictionaries in Canada – \u00a0we had no idea what it means but we were absolutely<\/em> certain it did not<\/em> mean that Christianity is objectively true and we should tell people that it is.<\/p>\n

Here we go again. This time it is the Season of Intentional Discipleship \u2013 SID, more appositely known as Sudden Infant Death syndrome – another ten years of pretending we are functionally illiterate. This time we are doing it Intentionally, through.<\/p>\n

It would be hilarious if those who should know better were not such willing participants in the chicanery.<\/p>\n

From Fed Hiltz’s myopic version of the\u00a0alarums and excursions from the recent Primates’ Meeting,\u00a0 here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"Accordingly we welcomed a conversation about evangelism.\u00a0 We were glad to hear of the call for a Season of Intentional Discipleship across the Communion (2016-2025)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of years ago, the Anglican Church of Canada launched something called \u201cThe Decade of Evangelism\u201d. I remember it well. Unfortunately. After ten years of groping for the real meaning of \u201cevangelism\u201d, we came to the conclusion that \u2013 … Continue reading →<\/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":[150],"tags":[1251],"class_list":["post-25429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fred-hiltz","tag-primates-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429","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=25429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}