The problem is the church is running out of money. The solution is a new committee.
During the years I’ve been attending an Anglican church, committees have come and gone leaving little behind them but a disagreeable whiff of empty posturing, very similar to IBM committee meetings that I attended during what passes for my career. The ecclesiastical version will, no doubt, be far more effective in inducing crippling ennui, since it will be populated by a gaggle of theologians, bishops and clergy whose tenuous grip on reality is summed up by this sentence in the article below: “The Communion has not split.”
Archbishop Linda Nicholls is suggesting “finding potentially radical solutions”. Before anyone rashly jumps to the conclusion that the Anglican Church of Canada is about to try Christianity to halt its dramatic decline, I refer you to another article, published at the same time, where Nicholls affirm[s] the dignity of LGBTQ+ people and their place in the church – which, in translation, means she affirms same-sex activity. And there is nothing less radical than that.
From here:
The church may soon have a new commission tasked with finding potentially “radical solutions” to the demographic and financial challenges that now face it, according to a proposal introduced by Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, in her opening statement to the Council of General Synod (CoGS) March 2.
Nicholls said a new strategy would be needed for the church to go forward into the post-pandemic world. It will need to respond to challenges including financial pressure “as parishes struggle to sustain full-time or part-time stipendiary ministry and dioceses struggle to meet multiple responsibilities at local, regional and national levels.” The national church, on the other hand, is facing the challenge of supporting ministry in regions where donations do not cover expenses, she said. Meanwhile, statistics show the church’s membership is aging and declining. Cultural shifts in Canadian society and a newly redefined relationship with the Indigenous church, she said, also demand new ideas.
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But in fact, Nicholls said, “the Communion remains committed to walking together—some at a great distance, others working more closely together.
“The Communion has not split.”
As long as the ACoC is content – might I even say willing – to support apostate bishops who have led the church from the worship of the GOD pf the Bible to the worship of the god of political expedience the decline will continue. All ordained clergy make a declaration in support of the Bible and many within the ACoC are nothing less than APOSTATES.
It is to be doubted whether a more spectacularly ignorant individual has ever purported to lead our Church.
“God’s work, done in God’s way, will never lack God’s supply.” [Hudson Taylor]
For Renewal: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewal-clerical-lay-dr-priscilla-turner/
The issue is not money, but whether we are doing according to the will of the one true God.
La Trahison des Clercs ( ‘The Betrayal of the Intellectuals and Ideologues) in both Church and State: “split” in the former;”broken” in the latter. Jeroboam’s robe is in tatters.
I’d started attending St John’s (Shaughnessy) Anglican Church on Nanton (W28th) & Granville in 1982 when a Regent College Student who was a Postman who attended 1st Baptist lived in our Basement Suite in our house on 2025 W50th Ave & Maple in Kerrisdale in 1982 told me about the place. I checked out couldn’t believe an old line Church could do so well. I grew up in Canadian Memorial United on W15th & Burrard was similar to St John’s & it was a good fit. I stayed there & was impressed by the Romantic Charm of the Old Anglican Churches the Kneeling Benches & The Book Of Common Prayer & all that. Today it’s unrecognizable from the Church I’d joined back then. It’s ugly what’s gone on. My whole family was upset when I showed them the letters from across the world over things going on in the Anglican Church. Well, after a while it was just too much for me. I couldn’t take it anymore. People could tell I didn’t look well. I left & joined the Roman Catholic Church had people come up say, “Wow, you look so good, what is it? You look like you had a big burden taken off of you…”, & so on!
When the Rev. Harry Robinson left Little Trinity Church in downtown Toronto to become the Rector of St. John’s (Shaughnessy) in 1979, many of my friends and I did not like his move to B.C. because we lost an excellent evangelical preacher, who had led many young people to enter the ordained ministry in the 1960s and 1970s.
Radical search solution found: ‘Feminist’ PRC-aligned Regime May 9, 2023, voted vs. Conservative Private Members Bill to protect pregnant women who are being murdered, some of ethnic perpetration, in Canada; one of whom was Kristin Beaton and her in utero baby in the Nova Scotia Mass shooting tragedy – the same tragedy the Regime interfered in to advance their proposed firearms Bill. Perhaps Planned Parenthood’s Ambassador of eugenics based Democrat driven abortion Indu$try could lend her voce at General Synod in July; after all, she et elle attended the September 4, 1995, International Women’s Conference where the distaff side of the population were aborted in favour of one child policy only – males; the same sex-selection policy of the Ottawa Regime, and the 127 live birth abortions perpetrated in 2022. Because it is Beijing 2023!