{"id":27943,"date":"2020-02-04T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27943"},"modified":"2020-02-04T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:18:35","slug":"bishop-jane-alexander-is-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-jane-alexander-is-resigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Jane Alexander is resigning"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years of working for IBM, I noticed that when executives were fired the favourite euphemism used was \u201cso and so is seeking employment opportunities elsewhere\u201d. When minions were fired, they were aiding in \u201cright-sizing\u201d. A manager who had no minions was a \u201cfree floating apex\u201d who would soon be floating out the door.<\/p>\n

Church euphemisms bandied around at such times include \u201cprayerful discernment\u201d, \u201ca change coming\u201d, \u201ccalling me out\u201d, \u201ccalled into places and called out of places\u201d.<\/p>\n

And they are all here<\/a>. Not that I am hinting that Alexander was fired: you can\u2019t fire a bishop. If you could there wouldn\u2019t be any. She has probably just finished reading the Anglican Church attendance statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Bishop Jane Alexander, bishop of the diocese of Edmonton, says she will be stepping down from her position July 31, with \u201cno idea\u201d what she will be doing next.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no need to say, \u2018What\u2019s the next big thing?\u2019 The big thing is always just serving Jesus wherever he puts you,\u201d says Alexander. \u201cSo, I know that\u2019s what I\u2019ll be called to do, but what that looks like? I have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander announced her resignation in a letter<\/a> January 26.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Journal,<\/em> Alexander said that she had been feeling a change coming for a while. \u201cSometimes I think we think of discernment as something that happens once and then we go, \u2018There, you\u2019re done.\u2019 But that\u2019s never been my experience of it. I think we get called into places and called out of places, and I was aware\u2026easily a year ago, that something different was changing\u2026. I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that I\u2019m actually being called out of diocesan episcopal ministry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After years of working for IBM, I noticed that when executives were fired the favourite euphemism used was \u201cso and so is seeking employment opportunities elsewhere\u201d. When minions were fired, they were aiding in \u201cright-sizing\u201d. A manager who had no … 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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[2371],"class_list":["post-27943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-edmonton","tag-bishop-jane-alexander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27943","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=27943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}