{"id":10316,"date":"2008-12-23T17:55:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_mark_reynolds_anglicans_and_their_unwelcome_house_guests\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T17:55:59","slug":"john_mark_reynolds_anglicans_and_their_unwelcome_house_guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10316","title":{"rendered":"John Mark Reynolds: Anglicans and Their Unwelcome House Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last half-century, the American Church has become an embarrassment to the global Church. They ceased to be Anglican in any meaningful sense, or in some cases even Christian, and the rest of the Anglican world finally decided to clean house. Certain people hijacked the American Anglican &#8220;family name,&#8221; but had no real ideological connection to the historic faith.<\/p>\n<p>The world is telling them to go find their own house.<\/p>\n<p>Only the most narrow minded person, whose vision of Christianity is parochial enough to see the Church as primarily European and North American, could be confused about the situation. The amazing thing is how patient the global majority has been with the struggling, shrinking American church.<\/p>\n<p>Global Anglicans are a tolerant group, but are finally telling the liberal interlopers to go their own way and stop pretending to be Anglican. They are reaching out to the actual Anglicans that remain in North America and are working to rebuild the American branch of the movement. Worldwide Anglicanism is trying to save the brand!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/john_mark_reynolds\/2008\/12\/the_unwelcome_house_guest.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last half-century, the American Church has become an embarrassment to the global Church. They ceased to be Anglican in any meaningful sense, or in some cases even Christian, and the rest of the Anglican world finally decided to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10316\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,605,82,66,78,514,79,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-proposed-formation-of-a-new-north-american-province","category-common-cause-partnership","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-conflicts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}