{"id":4527,"date":"2009-06-05T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2009-06-05T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T22:10:09","slug":"crisis-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada-i-think-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/crisis-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada-i-think-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in the Anglican Church of Canada? I think not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 26<sup>th<\/sup>, 2008, the Right Rev. Colin R. Johnson, Bishop of Toronto had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/comment\/article\/307582\" target=\"_blank\">this to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Anglican Church is doing just fine<\/strong><br \/>\nCrisis in the Anglican Church of Canada? I think not! While it is always a matter of great regret when anyone chooses to leave, surely recent reports of schism in Canada need some context. Of the approximately 2,300 parishes in Canada, about 15 have voted to &#8220;walk apart.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Colin, ANiC now has 3 bishops, 68 priests, 12 deacons, and 30 parishes with average Sunday attendance of around 3500\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 larger than 13 ACoC dioceses.<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of new Westminster is 2 weeks into the trial that will determine ownership of ANiC parish buildings, the Diocese of Niagara has been awarded $95,000 costs even though they were seeking $320,000, leaving them $225,000 in the hole \u2013 a deficit that is conspicuously absent from their published financial statements.<\/p>\n<p>Crisis? What crisis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 26th, 2008, the Right Rev. Colin R. Johnson, Bishop of Toronto had this to say: Anglican Church is doing just fine Crisis in the Anglican Church of Canada? I think not! While it is always a matter of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/crisis-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada-i-think-not\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,22],"tags":[2031,2032,2037],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-aniglican-network-in-canada","tag-anglican-angst","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","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=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}