{"id":27055,"date":"2019-04-23T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27055"},"modified":"2019-04-23T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:43:12","slug":"come-to-the-diocese-of-niagara-to-have-the-deep-seated-need-of-who-you-are-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/come-to-the-diocese-of-niagara-to-have-the-deep-seated-need-of-who-you-are-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Come to the Diocese of Niagara to have the deep-seated need of who you are confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confirming the \u201cdeep-seated need\u201d of who I am has, of course, nothing whatsoever to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is much more interested mere peccadilloes such as saving us from eternal damnation and reconciling us with the Creator of the universe. We are very blessed, then, to have Bishop Susan Bell to set us&#8230;&#8230; straight.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, for a while I\u2019ve felt a deep-seated need coming on to be recognised as the Pacific Ocean. Tomorrow I plan to self-identify as such and visit my local diocesan parish to have it affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a huge source of joy and I will finally be equal with my whole family who unanimously self identify as asexual anthozoan coral reefs except for uncle George who, though a process of conversation, prayer, relationship, deep study of the scriptures and theological scholarship has moved through various stages of understanding and grappling to arrive at a place of conviction that he is a jellyfish. Personally, I think he has been seeing too much of Bishop Susan Bell.<\/p>\n<p>This should help you to be more authentically who<em> you <\/em>are:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sharing Niagara\u2019s Lived Experience of Equal Marriage\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_QE-oP3tAA?start=381&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirming the \u201cdeep-seated need\u201d of who I am has, of course, nothing whatsoever to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is much more interested mere peccadilloes such as saving us from eternal damnation and reconciling us with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/come-to-the-diocese-of-niagara-to-have-the-deep-seated-need-of-who-you-are-confirmed\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2553,1390],"class_list":["post-27055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-bishop-susan-bell","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055","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=27055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}