{"id":3790,"date":"2009-04-19T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T21:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2009-04-19T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T21:26:16","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-dean-peter-wall-struggles-to-find-a-reason-for-the-hope-that-is-within-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-dean-peter-wall-struggles-to-find-a-reason-for-the-hope-that-is-within-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara: Dean Peter Wall struggles to find a reason for the hope that is within him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does a liberal Anglican priest get around the uncomfortable predicament of not actually believing the Christian faith?<\/p>\n<p>One way is illustrated below by Peter Wall, Dean and Rector of Christ&#8217;s Church Cathedral, diocese of Niagara. In the first clip, he declares he believes in the Virgin Birth, but he doesn&#8217;t know what it means.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9dAk7RJifTc]<\/p>\n<p>He also has no idea what the Resurrection is:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UNY64IWCYlg]<\/p>\n<p>So Peter Wall doesn&#8217;t know what the Virgin Birth means and doesn&#8217;t know what the Resurrection is, but after &#8220;struggling&#8221;, against all reason claims &#8211; with an air of effete condescension &#8211;\u00a0 he believes both.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder Anglicanism in the West has become a denominational village idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a liberal Anglican priest get around the uncomfortable predicament of not actually believing the Christian faith? One way is illustrated below by Peter Wall, Dean and Rector of Christ&#8217;s Church Cathedral, diocese of Niagara. In the first clip, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-dean-peter-wall-struggles-to-find-a-reason-for-the-hope-that-is-within-him\/\">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":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","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=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}