{"id":7612,"date":"2010-03-01T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:32:08","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-general-synod-2010-doing-the-indaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-general-synod-2010-doing-the-indaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod 2010: doing the Indaba?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/issues\/2010\/136\/mar\/03\/article\/work-cut-out-for-general-synod-2010\/?cHash=bb3ef06871\" target=\"_blank\">Journal<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Issues of sexuality:<\/strong> At its last meeting, CoGS appointed a working group to recommend a process to discuss issues of sexuality. \u201cI think\u2026people feel the process should be driven more by conversation and discernment than by resolution and debate,\u201d Archbishop Hiltz said.<\/p>\n<p>These conversations will begin, he added, with updates from a Faith, Worship and Ministry committee as\u00a0 well as the Primate\u2019s Theological Commission and the House of Bishops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This probably means that Hiltz will use some kind of Indaba-style diversionary tactic to prevent attendees addressing the same-sex blessing problem directly: more conversation, more discernment, more listening, more slipperiness. Since a number of dioceses are already blessing same-sex unions, they will continue and others will probably follow; and Hiltz will be able to claim he has not actually given them permission. This is known as leadership in the ACoC.<\/p>\n<p>One might hope that the few conservatives still in the ACoC will see through the ploy and force the issue; a vain hope, I fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal reports: Issues of sexuality: At its last meeting, CoGS appointed a working group to recommend a process to discuss issues of sexuality. \u201cI think\u2026people feel the process should be driven more by conversation and discernment than by resolution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-general-synod-2010-doing-the-indaba\/\">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":[16],"tags":[2032,2145,1386],"class_list":["post-7612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-fred-hiltz","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612","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=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}