{"id":28652,"date":"2020-12-02T22:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28652"},"modified":"2020-12-02T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T03:05:40","slug":"rev-anna-greenwood-lee-is-the-new-bishop-of-the-diocese-of-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-anna-greenwood-lee-is-the-new-bishop-of-the-diocese-of-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Anna Greenwood-Lee is the new bishop of the Diocese of\u00a0British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/calgary-priest-elected-14th-bishop-of-the-diocese-of-british-columbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rev. Anna Greenwood-Lee, incumbent at St. Laurence Anglican Church in the diocese of Calgary, was elected bishop of the diocese of British Columbia Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>She was elected on the seventh ballot during a virtual synod.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood-Lee says the diocese\u2019s vision of transformation spoke to her. \u201cIt felt like my gifts and what they were looking for in terms of their vision lined up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood-Lee points to her interest in social justice, particularly in the creation of the Wisdom Centre, an online network that connects people with events and resources. She also has experience with and teaches courses on congregational development, and teaches courses on the topic. In 2006, when she became the incumbent at St. Laurence, she was given three years to \u201ceither turn the place around or close it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s still here!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you would care to plumb the Solomonic depths of <a href=\"https:\/\/wisdomcentre.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wisdom Centre<\/a>, you will discover that the new bishop is all for shutting down churches, staying in your house, wearing a mask and not showing outward signs of piety \u2013 like wearing a mask.<\/p>\n<p>She goes on to tell us that those attending church during the pandemic are \u201ctrampling the Sabbath day\u201d: after all, Jesus did not tell us to go to church.<\/p>\n<p>Here she is in full-blown earnest:<\/p>\n<p>[fvplayer id=&#8221;11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Those who care about the Diocese of BC should start praying now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Rev. Anna Greenwood-Lee, incumbent at St. Laurence Anglican Church in the diocese of Calgary, was elected bishop of the diocese of British Columbia Sept. 26. She was elected on the seventh ballot during a virtual synod. Greenwood-Lee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-anna-greenwood-lee-is-the-new-bishop-of-the-diocese-of-british-columbia\/\">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":[103],"tags":[2654],"class_list":["post-28652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-bc","tag-rev-anna-greenwood-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652","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=28652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}