{"id":26694,"date":"2019-02-02T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26694"},"modified":"2019-02-02T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:07:23","slug":"londons-mcc-church-says-farewell-to-its-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/londons-mcc-church-says-farewell-to-its-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s MCC Church says farewell to its pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is all the fashion these days to add letters to the ubiquitous LGBT initialism, so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and add one of my own: LGBTC. The \u201cC\u201d stands for \u201cclosing\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"London\u2019s MCC Community church is a denomination that affirms and celebrates all things LGBT. It declares<\/a> itself to be welcoming, inclusive, diverse and tolerant, all qualities that seem to drive people away rather than attract them. A church that makes no demands of its members other than that they remain as they are clearly isn\u2019t peddling anything worth having. As a result, there aren\u2019t enough people to pay the pastor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It is with deep regret that we announce that this evening January 6, 2019<\/strong> will be Reverend Bruce Lee\u2019s final service as our Pastor of MCC London.\u00a0 The Board, in collaboration with Bruce, have come to the difficult decision that this congregation cannot financially maintain the cost associated with a full-time Pastor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is all the fashion these days to add letters to the ubiquitous LGBT initialism, so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and add one of my own: LGBTC. The \u201cC\u201d stands for \u201cclosing\u201d. London\u2019s MCC Community church … 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":[205],"tags":[2563],"class_list":["post-26694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-denominations","tag-mcc-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26694","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=26694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}