{"id":5835,"date":"2009-09-29T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2009-09-29T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:59:43","slug":"what-do-liberal-denominations-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-do-liberal-denominations-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What do liberal denominations have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They hate being hit where it hurts: in the pocketbook. By toying with heresy, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is on the same Gaderene slide to oblivion as the ACoC and TEC. This doesn&#8217;t seem to bother Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, their chap in charge, <em>that<\/em> much though, as long as people <a href=\"http:\/\/acl.asn.au\/continue-the-conversation-and-keep-giving-your-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">keep giving their money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy heart aches when I hear ELCA members express a feeling of abandonment because of the decisions on human sexuality taken by our church-wide Assembly. I am <em>deeply<\/em> concerned when ELCA members and congregations are being encouraged to signal that disagreement by withholding financial support\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the same way, nothing gets Anglican Primate Fred Hiltz salivating quite as profusely \u00a0as the prospect of raking in buckets of cash:<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They hate being hit where it hurts: in the pocketbook. By toying with heresy, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is on the same Gaderene slide to oblivion as the ACoC and TEC. This doesn&#8217;t seem to bother Presiding Bishop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-do-liberal-denominations-have-in-common\/\">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":[130],"tags":[2127],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elca","tag-elca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}