{"id":12686,"date":"2009-05-08T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_journal_free_floating_body_seeks_formal_relationship_with_anglican\/"},"modified":"2009-05-08T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T14:00:39","slug":"anglican_journal_free_floating_body_seeks_formal_relationship_with_anglican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12686","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Journal: &#39;Free-floating&#39; body seeks formal relationship with Anglican Consultative Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Compass Rose Society, an international body which seeks to support the ministry of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion is seeking \u201ca more formal relationship\u201d\u009d with the Anglican Consultative Council, its president told the council on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Compass Rose Society is \u201ca free-floating body with no group to which it connects and no accountability,\u201d\u009d said its president, Canadian Bishop Philip Poole, in an address at the ACC meeting here. \u201cI would like to ask whether we can have a more formal relationship so that the Compass Rose Society can continue for generations to come.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>There have been misconceptions that the Compass Rose Society is merely \u201can administrative bureaucracy\u201d\u009d that doles out money to Anglican bodies, said Bishop Poole, who is also a suffragan (assistant) bishop in the diocese of Toronto (York-Credit Valley). \u201cWe\u2019re much more than a source of money for meetings,\u201d\u009d he said, adding that the Compass Rose Society was \u201ctaking responsibility\u201d\u009d for the image that it projects and was doing something to change it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/world\/anglican-communion\/017\/article\/free-floating-body-seeks-formal-relationship-with-council\/?cHash=e2b36ae3e9\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Compass Rose Society, an international body which seeks to support the ministry of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion is seeking \u201ca more formal relationship\u201d\u009d with the Anglican Consultative Council, its president told the council on May<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12686\">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":[36,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-consultative-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686","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=12686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}