{"id":27857,"date":"2019-12-26T21:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27857"},"modified":"2019-12-26T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T02:50:22","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-sings-a-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-sings-a-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara sings a new song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27858\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-26_211710.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-26_211710.png 419w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-26_211710-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/>The theme of the 2019 diocesan synod was \u201cSing A New Song\u201d. Most of the items in the bishop\u2019s charge fell rather short of being either new or worth singing about. For example, ever eager to jump on the latest thinly disguised vacuous Gaia worship bandwagon, the diocese has <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraanglican.ca\/newspaper\/docs\/2020\/jan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a climate emergency and [is] urging advocacy and action to address it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that doesn\u2019t stimulate your vocal cords, perhaps this will:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>expressing a steadfast solidarity with the local and global LGBTQ2S+ community, affirming the prophetic witness of Bishop Michael Bird and Bishop Susan Bell, and receiving the affirmations contained with the \u201cWord to the Church\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Susan Bell doesn&#8217;t have much of a prophetic witness act to follow, since Michael Bird\u2019s prophetic abilities didn\u2019t manage rise to the level of dismal failure represented by CNN\u2019s attempt to predict the outcome of the 2016 US election.<\/p>\n<p>I expect what the article meant to say was: \u201caffirming the woke witness of Bishop Michael Bird and Bishop Susan Bell\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of the 2019 diocesan synod was \u201cSing A New Song\u201d. Most of the items in the bishop\u2019s charge fell rather short of being either new or worth singing about. For example, ever eager to jump on the latest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-sings-a-new-song\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2553],"class_list":["post-27857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-bishop-susan-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27857","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=27857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}