{"id":26554,"date":"2018-11-25T22:47:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26554"},"modified":"2018-11-25T22:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:54:06","slug":"financial-problems-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/financial-problems-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial problems in the Anglican Church of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a recent twitter feed generated by the Council of General Synod meeting:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26555\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222357.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222357.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222357-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222357-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26556\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222428.jpg 733w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222428-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222428-500x113.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Someone had the temerity to ask a pertinent question:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26557\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222452.jpg 733w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222452-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Annotation-2018-11-25-222452-500x86.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglican.ca\/news\/highlights-from-the-council-of-general-synod-november-23-2018\/30023213\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These<\/a> are the items [along with helpful editorial comments in brackets like these] preoccupying the luminaries in the meeting; could there be a connection between this and falling revenues?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>intentional discipleship; <em>[as opposed to the unintentional discipleship practiced hitherto]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>becoming a post-colonial church; <em>[the real worry should be becoming a post-existing church]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>honouring the emergence of Indigenous churches;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>imagining the church God is calling us to be; <em>[or imagining the church we wish God was calling us to be]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>learnings from the Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue; <em>[learnings?]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>supporting the witness of the church in Holy Land; <em>[shrivelling to extinction \u2013 at least, the Anglican variety]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>sustainable development goals; <em>[advice from an organisation unable to sustain itself]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>migration and human trafficking; <em>[about time: the bishops are planning on taking migrants into their own homes]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>gender-based violence; <em>[we like non-gender-based violence]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>state-sponsored or sanctioned violence; and <em>[except for socialist state sponsored violence. And Islamic state sponsored violence. And communist state sponsored violence. And\u2026. so on]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>interfaith dialogue and collaboration <em>[we really prefer other religions to Christianity]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a recent twitter feed generated by the Council of General Synod meeting: Someone had the temerity to ask a pertinent question: These are the items [along with helpful editorial comments in brackets like these] preoccupying the luminaries in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/financial-problems-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/\">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":[16],"tags":[617],"class_list":["post-26554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-cogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26554","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=26554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}