{"id":26422,"date":"2018-09-15T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T01:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26422"},"modified":"2018-09-15T21:19:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T01:19:56","slug":"michael-coren-starts-work-at-the-church-of-the-incarnation-oakville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/michael-coren-starts-work-at-the-church-of-the-incarnation-oakville\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Coren starts work at the Church of the Incarnation, Oakville"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an odd twist of events, Michael Coren has been assigned to work at the Church of the Incarnation<\/a> in Oakville as part of his M.Div studies.<\/p>\n

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This parish is part of the Diocese of Niagara, the diocese my parish fled in 2008 over\u00a0 theological differences. Michael Coren has managed what few who have left their teenage years behind can claim: he has reversed his opinions on just about everything. For example, in 2008 he was a great supporter of St. Hilda\u2019s and the stand we had taken against the Diocese of Niagara. When we were on speaking terms (he has blocked me on twitter), I occasionally fed him tidbits of information on the antics of the diocese as they attempted (successfully in the end) to liberate our building from us. Here is one of his email responses to me about the diocesan leaders:<\/p>\n

Unbelievable! They are such self-caricatures. I’ll use it on TV and perhaps radio. Stay strong man – just like Owen Glendower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now he has chosen to work for the self-caricatures.<\/em><\/p>\n

The rector at the Church of the Incarnation is Rev Michael Patterson who used to work for the diocese as the Director of Evangelism and then as the Diocesan Executive Officer.<\/p>\n

A few encounters I had with him stick in my mind:<\/p>\n

The first was when I was leading worship at a servers\u2019 festival. I had chosen a song about God the Father, a description which, Patterson confided to me in the break, many in his congregation found offensive because of its blatant patriarchy.<\/p>\n

The second was when he came to speak at St. Hilda\u2019s during his stint as Director of Evangelism. It was year 10 in the diocese\u2019s Decade of Evangelism: apparently, the diocese was still struggling to define \u201cevangelism\u201d.<\/p>\n

The last encounter was a veiled threat of a lawsuit over what I thought were some rather amusing remarks I made in this blog. His boss, who few would accuse of being much given to original thought, picked up the idea and did sue me.<\/p>\n

Michael Coren is at the Church of the Incarnation to learn. Learn what? How to define \u201cevangelism\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an odd twist of events, Michael Coren has been assigned to work at the Church of the Incarnation in Oakville as part of his M.Div studies. This parish is part of the Diocese of Niagara, the diocese my parish … 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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-26422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-michael-coren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422","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=26422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}