{"id":3428,"date":"2007-12-09T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bill_atwood_myths_some_anglican_leaders_who_should_know_better_still_try_to\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T02:20:00","slug":"bill_atwood_myths_some_anglican_leaders_who_should_know_better_still_try_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3428","title":{"rendered":"Bill Atwood: Myths some Anglican Leaders who Should Know Better still try to Live By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Everything is fine.<br \/>\nHard as it is to believe, there are still people who are clinging to this fantasy. It is utterly false, but surprisingly widely held. It\u2019s sort of like people on the Titanic complimenting the band.<\/p>\n<p>2. Closely linked with #1 is myth #2:  It is the responsibility of The Episcopal Church to fix things in the US. One of the \u201cmoderate\u201d\u009d primates said this to me recently. I asked him, \u201cGiven that the General Convention, the House of Bishops, the Presiding Bishop, and the House of Bishops have all indicated that they have no intention of changing course, why on earth would you hold out hope that the Episcopal Church is really going to change course and come in line with Biblical faith?\u201d\u009d He replied, \u201cBecause the alternative is unthinkable.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Now entering \u201cUnthinkable&#8230;.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican-mainstream.net\/index.php\/2007\/12\/08\/myths-we-live-by-in-the-anglican-communion-today\/#more-2519\">Read the whole piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Everything is fine. Hard as it is to believe, there are still people who are clinging to this fantasy. It is utterly false, but surprisingly widely held. It\u2019s sort of like people on the Titanic complimenting the band. 2.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3428\">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":[36,73,66,514,79,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-analysis","category-episcopal-church-tec","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\/3428","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=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}