{"id":5086,"date":"2009-08-01T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T19:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2009-08-01T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T19:53:03","slug":"the-two-track-anglican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-two-track-anglican\/","title":{"rendered":"The two-track Anglican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astonishingly, the crumbling of Anglicanism is still of enough interest to find a place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/29\/world\/europe\/29church.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">secular press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, said profound differences among the world\u2019s 77 million Anglicans over gay clergy and same-sex unions could divide their church into a \u201ctwo-track model\u201d yielding \u201ctwo styles of being Anglican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The formula could avert a formal breach between liberals and conservatives but bring new strains in the relationship between the global Anglican Communion and American Episcopalians who resolved this month  to open the door to ordaining openly gay bishops and to start the process of developing rites for same-sex marriages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I am all in favour of a two-track Anglican church. It would be just like everyday life: God whispering in one ear and the devil in the other. The only remaining question is, will two-track Anglicanism last as long as 8 track tape?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astonishingly, the crumbling of Anglicanism is still of enough interest to find a place in the secular press: The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, said profound differences among the world\u2019s 77 million Anglicans over gay clergy and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-two-track-anglican\/\">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":[14,15],"tags":[2030,2031],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","category-anglican-angst","tag-anglican","tag-anglican-angst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086","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=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}