{"id":32415,"date":"2025-07-31T16:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=32415"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:25:05","slug":"acna-continues-burrowing-down-the-woke-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/acna-continues-burrowing-down-the-woke-rabbit-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"ACNA continues burrowing down the woke rabbit hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"\"ACNA\u2019s New Vice-Chancellor for Safeguarding<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the midst of a difficult week for the Anglican Church in North America, there is\u00a0a happy announcement<\/a>: we have a Vice-Chancellor for Safeguarding, Jeannie Rose Barksdale! She has quite the\u00a0resume<\/a>, including a Stanford degree in Political Science and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.<\/p>\n

Now in case any reader thinks Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity is grievance studies, you need to repent of noticing. Noticing is Whiteness.<\/p>\n

Since then she has been busy, including being an active member of Church of the Advent, Washington, D. C., in the Diocese of Christ Our Hope. But she has found time to write. So let\u2019s meet Jeannie Rose Barksdale in her own words.<\/p>\n

Back in February, she found time to write for that erudite and balanced Christian publication,\u00a0Sojourners<\/a>. In it she is sad about a repeat shoplifter getting caught at Target. The shoplifter needed more love. She is also \u201cfeeling powerless and overwhelmed.\u201d Why?<\/p>\n

Lately, it has been far easier to despair than to love concretely. The Trump administration\u2019s strategy of flooding the zone has made me feel powerless and overwhelmed \u2014 which is,\u00a0as Adam Russell Taylor recently described it<\/a>, precisely the point. Even while\u00a0wrestling with lament<\/a>, I\u2019ve wanted to move toward contributing to addressing injustice to counter the pervasive injustice that occupies so much of our news. But I\u2019ve just not known how.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, the first days of President Trump II were so awful, it was difficult to love, to even know how to love. Oh, the \u201cwrestling with lament\u201d!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You may have guessed that I don\u2019t much like Donald Trump. I think he is a bombastic, egotistical oaf. Having said that, I have to admit that what he has done has not been all bad: I tend to think of his positive achievements as happy accidents. Since they have all been bludgeoned into existence by executive order, they will all be undone in four years or so when an extreme leftist gets into power and uses the same technique. And I do not doubt that in four years the anti-Trump pendulum will swing with vengeance to the left.<\/p>\n

Still, all this is temporal vanity that has little bearing on the eternal matters that should preoccupy the church.<\/p>\n

So, if Ms Barksdale is in that much mental distress over wordly events that are largly beneficial – even though enacted by a buffoon –\u00a0 and ACNA has hired her, both she and ACNA are in serious trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here ACNA\u2019s New Vice-Chancellor for Safeguarding In the midst of a difficult week for the Anglican Church in North America, there is\u00a0a happy announcement: we have a Vice-Chancellor for Safeguarding, Jeannie Rose Barksdale! She has quite the\u00a0resume, including a … 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":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415","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=32415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}