{"id":7945,"date":"2010-03-28T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2010-03-28T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:14:00","slug":"nuns-are-not-what-they-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/nuns-are-not-what-they-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuns are not what they used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who used to be an Anglican Nun; she is a bit of a stickler for correct doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, <a href=\"http:\/\/anglican-church.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/athiest-becomes-anglican-nun\">here<\/a> is a creed written by a current Anglican Church of Canada Nun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A Creed for the Twenty-First Century<\/strong><br \/>\nI believe in God, I guess<br \/>\nwell no. I am pretty sure.<br \/>\nI do believe in God.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nwho God is<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nwhat God is<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nhow God is<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\nI believe in God.<br \/>\nI guess.<br \/>\nI believe in Jesus Christ. I guess.<br \/>\nwell, I believe in Jesus,<br \/>\nGod-born man,<br \/>\nmy brother, friend and guide.<br \/>\nYes, I believe in Jesus.<br \/>\nBut as for Christ<br \/>\nanointed one<br \/>\nMessiah<br \/>\nSavior<br \/>\nsacrifice<br \/>\nI do, I guess, believe in Christ,<br \/>\nBut wonder<br \/>\nHow? and why? and what?<br \/>\nSo I believe in Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nI guess.<br \/>\nDo I believe in Holy Spirit?<br \/>\nwell I guess.<br \/>\nFor something<br \/>\npart of me yet not,<br \/>\ninborn yet not of me<br \/>\nSomething makes me yearn<br \/>\nand search and open<br \/>\nsomething quite<br \/>\nagainst my will,<br \/>\nand that, perhaps, is Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nSo I believe in Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nI guess.<\/p>\n<p>Sr. Sue Elwyn, SSJD<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how quickly the early church would have spread if this had been its creed. Not very. I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who used to be an Anglican Nun; she is a bit of a stickler for correct doctrine. In contrast, here is a creed written by a current Anglican Church of Canada Nun: A Creed for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/nuns-are-not-what-they-used-to-be\/\">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":[237],"tags":[2032],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-in-particular","tag-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","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=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}