{"id":8034,"date":"2010-04-06T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2010-04-06T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:31:14","slug":"another-vapid-anglican-mantra-change-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/another-vapid-anglican-mantra-change-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Another vapid Anglican mantra: Change is Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I was walking barefoot around the house when, on my left foot, \u00a0I caught the space between the little toe and the toe next to it on the edge of a door. It hurt a bit; I looked down and couldn\u2019t help noticing that my little toe was standing out at a 90 degree angle to it\u2019s normal resting position. When my wife told me I would have to have something done about it, I told her, \u201cnot to worry, I\u2019ll cut a hole in all my shoes and let the toe poke out the side. After all, Change is Good!\u2122\u201d I ended up opting for the same old familiar, dull toe angle that my wife was used to; the first thing the doctor said to me when he looked at it was \u201cI bet you don\u2019t want me to touch that\u201d. I\u2019ll spare you what happened next.<\/p>\n<p>Because of financial embarrassment, the Diocese of BC is busy closing churches. Not to worry; as the editor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bc.anglican.ca\/content\/DPApril2010WEB.pdf\">Diocesan Post<\/a> notes (page 5), Change is Good\u2122:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Change really is GOOD.<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese is undergoing a transition and while it is hard, painful for some, a relief for others, it is changing none-the-less. And you, we, as people of Christ, either need to get on board or get off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, sometimes change <em>is <\/em>good; that\u2019s why so many parishes have chosen <em>get off<\/em> the Anglican Church of Canada and realign with vast majority of orthodox Anglicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I was walking barefoot around the house when, on my left foot, \u00a0I caught the space between the little toe and the toe next to it on the edge of a door. It hurt a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/another-vapid-anglican-mantra-change-is-good\/\">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":[103],"tags":[2104],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-bc","tag-diocese-of-bc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}