{"id":139568,"date":"2025-09-08T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139568"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:39:52","slug":"the-anglican-the-acna-at-crossroads-part-ii-holding-all-things-for-sake-of-the-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139568","title":{"rendered":"(The Anglican) The ACNA at CrossRoads, Part II: Holding All Things for Sake of the Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anglicanism was never meant to be robes and chants for their own sake. It was meant to be a way of being the Church: rooted in common prayer, shaped by shared doctrine, and carried forward in mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living with tension has never been easy, but it has often been fruitful. Time has a way of clarifying what is central and what is secondary, and tension has a way of forcing us to depend on grace rather than power. Together, they have preserved us before, and they may preserve us again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compromise. Balance. Tension. These aren\u2019t bugs. They\u2019re features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So perhaps the lesson of history is this: we do not need to settle everything today. We need only hold fast to Christ, to one another, and to the mission set before us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we do, time and tension may yet prove to be our strength\u2014the means by which God steadies His Church and carries the gospel to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidroseberry.substack.com\/p\/the-acna-at-crossroads-part-ii-holding\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Each day\u2019s work at The College of Bishops &#39;25 was concluded with Evening Prayer during which personal testimonies were shared. Bishop Eric Menees of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin share his testimony here <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PZt9eo08Lc\">https:\/\/t.co\/PZt9eo08Lc<\/a> or listen here <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lfcBMvmp7y\">https:\/\/t.co\/lfcBMvmp7y<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uCVceyP6Tg\">pic.twitter.com\/uCVceyP6Tg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ACNA (@The_ACNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_ACNA\/status\/1886391729714008105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglicanism was never meant to be robes and chants for their own sake. It was meant to be a way of being the Church: rooted in common prayer, shaped by shared doctrine, and carried forward in mission. Living with tension<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139568\">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":[36,73,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-analysis","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139568","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=139568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139573,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139568\/revisions\/139573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}