{"id":16539,"date":"2009-12-07T05:08:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T05:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/more_than_a_via_media_los_angeles_declaration_of_independence\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T05:08:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T05:08:56","slug":"more_than_a_via_media_los_angeles_declaration_of_independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16539","title":{"rendered":"More than a via media: Los Angeles&#39; declaration of independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA diocesan bishop J. Jon Bruno has, however, stated, &#8220;to not consent in this country out of fear of the reaction elsewhere in the Anglican Communion is to capitulate to titular heads&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Notice the politicised language and assumptions. Nationalism &#8211; &#8220;in this country&#8221; &#8211; has no place in the Christian conception of koinonia. Lambeth, the other Instruments of Communion, and Anglicans across the globe are not &#8220;titular heads&#8221; &#8211; this is not how Anglicans refer to their pastors or brothers and sisters. Bruno&#8217;s invocation of the spirit of 1776 signifies something of the cultural conformity in parts of TEC far more significant than differences over same-sex relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Los Angeles should be thanked. The diocese has now forced TEC to reflect on whether koinonia or independence are of greater significance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morethanaviamedia.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/los-angeles-declaration-of-independence.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA diocesan bishop J. Jon Bruno has, however, stated, &#8220;to not consent in this country out of fear of the reaction elsewhere in the Anglican Communion is to capitulate to titular heads&#8221;. Notice the politicised language and assumptions. Nationalism &#8211;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16539\">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":[36,66,514,79,372,376,652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539","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=16539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}