{"id":1301,"date":"2009-07-17T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2009-07-17T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:37:14","slug":"the-end-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"The End is Near!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the end of the Episcopal Church&#8217;s relationship with Anglicans is near&#8230; N.T. Wright recently published a very clear rebuke and warning about the Episcopal Church on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/guest_contributors\/article6710640.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Times Online the 15th of this month<\/a>. Read the whole article, but here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the rails altogether. The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church (TEC) in the United States has voted decisively to allow in principle the appointment, to all orders of ministry, of persons in active same-sex relationships. This marks a clear break with the rest of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Both the bishops and deputies (lay and clergy) of TEC knew exactly what they were doing. They were telling the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other \u201cinstruments of communion\u201d that they were ignoring their plea for a moratorium on consecrating practising homosexuals as bishops. They were rejecting the two things the Archbishop of Canterbury has named as the pathway to the future \u2014 the Windsor Report (2004) and the proposed Covenant (whose aim is to provide a modus operandi for the Anglican Communion). They were formalising the schism they initiated six years ago when they consecrated as bishop a divorced man in an active same-sex relationship, against the Primates\u2019 unanimous statement that this would \u201ctear the fabric of the Communion at its deepest level\u201d. In Windsor\u2019s language, they have chosen to \u201cwalk apart\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the TEC resolution indicates a strong willingness to remain within the Anglican Communion. But saying \u201cwe want to stay in, but we insist on rewriting the rules\u201d is cynical double-think. We should not be fooled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inlightofthegospel.org\/?p=5571\" target=\"_blank\">James Grant<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the end of the Episcopal Church&#8217;s relationship with Anglicans is near&#8230; N.T. Wright recently published a very clear rebuke and warning about the Episcopal Church on the Times Online the 15th of this month. Read the whole article, but here is an excerpt: In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=1301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The End is Near!<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,84,61,71,54,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglicanism","category-culture","category-ecclesiology","category-false-religion","category-history","category-homosexual-agenda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}