{"id":8975,"date":"2010-06-12T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2010-06-12T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T17:21:32","slug":"a-comparison-of-historic-anglican-events-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-comparison-of-historic-anglican-events-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"A comparison of historic Anglican events in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s synod has sputtered to an end producing little more than a bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nevertheless, Fred Hiltz has hailed the synod<\/a> as \u201chistoric\u201d. It\u2019s difficult to imagine a less historic event, although I did trim my toenails this morning and I suppose that might just qualify.<\/p>\n

General Synod 2010 full of historic and holy moments.<\/p>\n

In a media conference following the closing Eucharist service, Archbishop Hiltz spoke of several, “historic and holy moments in the life of the church” that took place throughout General Synod.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coincidentally, an article appeared in the National Post<\/a> this morning about an insignificant little parish in Oakville full of a peculiar \u2013 if not downright eccentric \u2013 people who seem to be in the middle of something that really is <\/em>historic:<\/p>\n

Oakville Anglican parish home of profound revolution<\/p>\n

There is nothing that hints at revolution on this suburban road in Oakville, where St. Hilda\u2019s Anglican parish has sat for more than 50 years. No wild signs of protest, no warnings of hell and damnation, and no list of Luther-like demands nailed to the main door \u2014 just a not-so-extraordinary church building in the midst of a neighbourhood easily forgotten by those driving through.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, a religious revolution has taken place here as profound as anything seen in modern Christian history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s synod has sputtered to an end producing little more than a bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nevertheless, Fred Hiltz has hailed the synod as \u201chistoric\u201d. It\u2019s difficult to imagine a less historic event, … Continue reading →<\/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":[2032,402,2160,1458],"class_list":["post-8975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-network-in-canada","tag-gs2010-2","tag-st-hilda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975","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=8975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}