{"id":7419,"date":"2010-02-09T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:17:34","slug":"rowan-williams-and-the-middle-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-and-the-middle-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams and the middle ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/2752\" target=\"_blank\">Presidential Address<\/a>, Rowan Williams has said something to upset just about everyone. I think he deserves credit since his seems to be such an effortless gift; others of us have to work at it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thurible.net\/20100209\/still-shocking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liberals are upset<\/a> because Rowan is still not <em>\u201cfully including\u201d <\/em>homosexuals in the life of the Anglican church, even though he did issue a rather <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8506783.stm\" target=\"_blank\">grovelling apology<\/a> \u2013 perhaps what was missing was an obsequious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/33978533\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Bow<\/a>\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives will be upset because, among other things, he seems to think that TEC and the ACoC have exercised genuine <em>restraint, <\/em>because he jumbles together <em>outside intervention<\/em> and litigation as if they were equivalent wrongs and because he still doesn\u2019t get it: the ACoC and TEC have become sub-Christian institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the problem of trying to find middle ground when there really isn\u2019t any. \u00a0Rowan Williams might be able to thrive in the effete, refined halls of academia but he is quite incapable of leading the Anglican communion to anywhere but ruin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Presidential Address, Rowan Williams has said something to upset just about everyone. I think he deserves credit since his seems to be such an effortless gift; others of us have to work at it. Liberals are upset because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-and-the-middle-ground\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2241],"class_list":["post-7419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419","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=7419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}