From here:
The Rev. Anna Greenwood-Lee, incumbent at St. Laurence Anglican Church in the diocese of Calgary, was elected bishop of the diocese of British Columbia Sept. 26.
She was elected on the seventh ballot during a virtual synod.
Greenwood-Lee says the diocese’s vision of transformation spoke to her. “It felt like my gifts and what they were looking for in terms of their vision lined up.”
Greenwood-Lee points to her interest in social justice, particularly in the creation of the Wisdom Centre, an online network that connects people with events and resources. She also has experience with and teaches courses on congregational development, and teaches courses on the topic. In 2006, when she became the incumbent at St. Laurence, she was given three years to “either turn the place around or close it,” she says. “It’s still here!”
If you would care to plumb the Solomonic depths of Wisdom Centre, you will discover that the new bishop is all for shutting down churches, staying in your house, wearing a mask and not showing outward signs of piety – like wearing a mask.
She goes on to tell us that those attending church during the pandemic are “trampling the Sabbath day”: after all, Jesus did not tell us to go to church.
Here she is in full-blown earnest:
Those who care about the Diocese of BC should start praying now.
2 min sermon Wisdom Center mentions Isaiah 58 that true worship is staying home
Faith over Fear biaatch- Their plan is coming together nicely-Jesus wept
Social justice ? LGTBQ bla,blah, embracing Islam, same sex marriage , global warming and the list goes on.
These things should NEVER been allowed to enter the Church, in the first place. In fact, they’ve wrecked many Churches.
Let the busybodies that want these things, do it outside the Church.
From her current church, she covers the Transfiguration of Christ on the day of Vestry on Feb 23. 2020. Highlighting the wonder of it all, she points out that Peter’s building project really isn’t what God is about, but that Jesus is. But actually, nothing about Jesus. The idea is that we can’t stay on the mountaintop … The rhythm of Church attendance is matched to the biblical story – the mountaintop is going to church, and down the hill is real life, over and again. So the video linked in the article is special poignant.
Being vestry Sunday, she commends the congregation that they have made a difference in the city of Calgary through various social justice initiatives (ie. lobbying for maintaining bus passes for poor people). She tries to define what the important thing is that the church is about: “We are fed in this place so we can go out and feed the world and that is the important work that God is always and ever calling us to.”
The sermon ends: “I preach to you in the name of one God of all time and all space. Amen.”
https://stlaurence.ca/worship-services/
She declares nothing at all about Christ’s glory, or his redemptive work. And on the web site, in commenting on the 5 Marks of Mission: “St. Laurence (Anglican Church) is committed to living out all five of these marks of mission especially the three that call us to act of justice in the world.” This leaves out the first and second Marks: Proclaiming the Good News about Jesus Christ, and nurturing new believers.
She’s been 14 years at St. Laurence, so I assume she’s been able to put her personal stamp on the church. It evidently isn’t the historic faith that finds Christ at the centre of all things. Sad the diocese has so little discernment for their own future.
The banality of banality
From ‘flying Bishops’ to simoniacal ‘Tulchan Bishops’:
of the latter whom James Melville observed of the first imposed on the pulpit in St. Andrew’s, Fife:
“That is the first time I heard Mr. Patrick Constantine the week after the bishop was made. In his sermon he made three sorts of bishops – my lord bishop, my lord’s bishop, and The LORD’s bishop. My lord’s bishop, said he, was in the Papistry;
my lord’s bishop is now, when my lord gets the benefice, and the bishop serves for nothing but to make his title sure; and The LORD’s bishop is the true Minister of The Gospel.”