{"id":40686,"date":"2013-10-23T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_ink_george_conger-gafcon_ii_is_it_a_movement_in_search_of_a_missi\/"},"modified":"2013-10-23T02:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T02:00:35","slug":"anglican_ink_george_conger-gafcon_ii_is_it_a_movement_in_search_of_a_missi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40686","title":{"rendered":"(Anglican Ink) George Conger&#8211;Gafcon II, is it a movement in search of a mission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gafcon II began on a different key than its first assembly in 2008. The anger-tinged passion that drove the Jerusalem conference is absent from Nairobi and there is a confidence in the vigor of the global reform movement.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, for its successes \u201d\u201c playing midwife to the birth of the Anglican Church in North America, expanding the circle of supporters across the globe, garnering acknowledgement from Canterbury  &#8212; the movement is in the midst of a reimagining of its identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are we\u201d\u009d asked Dr. Peter Jensen, the Gafcon General Secretary in the opening address to the 1352 delegates from 40 countries representing 28 provinces. Will we be here in five years, he mused.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-26 October 2013 conference is expected to give direction to the movement \u201d\u201c but to where remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anglicanink.com\/article\/whither-gafcon-ii\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gafcon II began on a different key than its first assembly in 2008. The anger-tinged passion that drove the Jerusalem conference is absent from Nairobi and there is a confidence in the vigor of the global reform movement. Yet, for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40686\">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":[36,39,400,74,512,78,119,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-of-kenya","category-anglican-provinces","category-gafcon-ii-2013","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-globalization","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40686","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=40686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}