![\"\"](\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nicholls1_MG-1024x657-1024x657.jpg\")
<\/p>\nAnd fails.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
According to its own prophetic statistical insight, the Anglican Church of Canada will be exanimate<\/a> by 2040. The new primate understands this, so is consoling faithful clergy whose hearing aids are turned on with these words<\/a>:<\/p>\n In the face of falling membership and financial challenges, Canadian Anglicans should feel encouraged that there remains a role for their church in the world\u2014and that their God will always be faithful to them, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said Thursday, Nov. 7, in her first address as primate to the Council of General Synod (CoGS).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Solidifying the role of the church in the world by becoming more like the world is what has brought the ACoC to the brink of extinction in the first place, so recommending becoming even more entrenched in temporal fads is not going to help. Yet here we go:<\/p>\n Many of the church\u2019s values, such as its \u201cdeep commitment to community\u201d and its gifts of confession and forgiveness also give it a unique voice on societal issues, such as political polarization and justice, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bishops seem to be embarrassed by transcendent questions like:<\/p>\n Why am I here? What happens when I die, will I still exist? How do I get to heaven? How can my sins be forgiven? Are there such things as miracles?<\/p>\n If all I want is a \u201cdeep commitment to community\u201d I can join the local lawn bowling club and, after my octogenarian substitute for exercise, go to the bar to confess to the bartender. After a suitable degree of inebriation, I can expound with a \u201cunique voice on societal issues, such as political polarization and justice\u201d. How can the church compete with that?<\/p>\n Oh yes, by doing this:<\/p>\n Nicholls said one of the tasks she wanted the church to focus on in coming years was fighting racism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How about doing something unpopular like fighting abortion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And fails. According to its own prophetic statistical insight, the Anglican Church of Canada will be exanimate by 2040. The new primate understands this, so is consoling faithful clergy whose hearing aids are turned on with these words: In the … Continue reading