{"id":29103,"date":"2021-06-22T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29103"},"modified":"2021-06-22T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:02:26","slug":"fergus-priest-drawing-renegade-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/fergus-priest-drawing-renegade-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Fergus priest drawing Renegade Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"

The caption on the photo of Rev. Anne Turner, below, reads: \u201cRev. Ann Turner is the Rector at St. James Anglican Church in Fergus and begins each gathering with a land acknowledgement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s always puzzled me that those who are pressed by the weight of guilt into acknowledging that the land their building occupies really belongs to someone else never experience \u2013 or obey – the urge to give it back.<\/p>\n

Still, Rev. Turner makes up for it by encouraging everyone to draw rainbows everywhere. Especially since it\u2019s June. We\u2019re all drawing rainbows. Even Jesus. Sorry, no, scratch that, the Rev. doesn\u2019t mention Jesus at all.<\/p>\n

Read it all here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"You might see her walking through the streets of Fergus wearing her clerical collar and talking to community members, running the service at St. James Anglican Church\u00a0or working with community LGBTQ+ initiatives.<\/p>\n

For years, Rev. Ann Turner has been an openly out priest with St. James Anglican Church in Fergus and has been a staple in the community while bridging the gap between marginalized communities and faith-based organizations.<\/p>\n

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Turner said she was happy to help build community inclusivity through various initiatives, like Renegade Rainbows, an initiative that encouraged community members across Centre Wellington to draw chalk rainbows on their sidewalk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were little kids out drawing rainbows, there were seniors drawing rainbows and everything in between,\u201d Turner said. \u201cThat was something absolutely anybody could do and it made a statement to those folks who might feel like they are outside the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The St. James Anglican Church also flies the pride flag during the month of June.
\n\u201cWe also have the rainbow on our sign and rainbows on everything that’s attached to us, and all our programmes to make sure folks know that there’s a spot and there’s a safe place that\u2019s out there,\u201d Turner said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The caption on the photo of Rev. Anne Turner, below, reads: \u201cRev. Ann Turner is the Rector at St. James Anglican Church in Fergus and begins each gathering with a land acknowledgement.\u201d It\u2019s always puzzled me that those who are … 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":[16],"tags":[2674,2675],"class_list":["post-29103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-fergus","tag-rev-anne-turner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29103","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=29103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}