{"id":25557,"date":"2017-11-24T21:37:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T02:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25557"},"modified":"2017-11-24T21:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T02:37:51","slug":"bishop-bill-anderson-explains-why-he-moved-to-anic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-bill-anderson-explains-why-he-moved-to-anic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Bill Anderson explains why he moved to ANiC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the firing of Rev. Jacob Worley was the last straw for Bishop Anderson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-25538\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wa-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"164\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/retired-bishop-caledonia-leaves-anglican-church-canada-breakaway-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLast week, I transferred,\u201d Anderson said Wednesday, November 22, adding that he had had \u201congoing concerns for a long time about the direction things have been going in the Anglican Church of Canada,\u201d but that the overturning of the Rev. Jacob Worley\u2019s election as bishop last May, followed by his firing this November, together served as \u201cthe final straw.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bishop went on to assert what everyone suspects but Archbishop Privett, employing Goebbels&#8217; principle &#8211; if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-caledonia\/archbishop-john-privett-tells-us-why-he-fired-rev-jacob-worley\/\">denies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 the real reason for Worley\u2019s being blocked as bishop and then being fired lay with his views.<br \/>\n\u201cI think the issue was much more, quite frankly, the fact that he represented a conservative stream of theological thought that was offensive to the extremely liberal drift of the bishops of the provincial house,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cThe whole thing smacked of a kangaroo court.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a suspicion that this could be the catalyst that begins the unravelling of the diocese of Caledonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the firing of Rev. Jacob Worley was the last straw for Bishop Anderson. From here: \u201cLast week, I transferred,\u201d Anderson said Wednesday, November 22, adding that he had had \u201congoing concerns for a long time about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-bill-anderson-explains-why-he-moved-to-anic\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2451],"tags":[2337,2486],"class_list":["post-25557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-caledonia","tag-bishop-william-anderson","tag-john-privett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557","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=25557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}