{"id":5174,"date":"2008-03-19T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_schism_not_catastrophic_theologian\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:10:00","slug":"anglican_schism_not_catastrophic_theologian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5174","title":{"rendered":"Anglican schism not &#39;catastrophic&#39;: theologian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schism is not a &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; event and is preferable to placating those who do not treat gays as equal simply for the sake of unity, a Canadian Anglican theologian says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are moments when treating unity as kind of absolute virtue that&#8217;s higher than anything else is not necessarily the right thing,&#8221; Rev. Paul Gibson said in an interview, concerning an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storiesoffaith.ca\/shareyourjoy\/2008\/03\/why_i_am_not_afraid_of_schism.html\">essay<\/a> he wrote that was posted on the Anglican Church of Canada&#8217;s Web site Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote the essay in relation to the present schism in the Anglican Church over same-sex blessings, and concluded that a unified church that treats gays unequally would be a greater evil than a divided church. Since the start of the year, eight Anglican parishes, out of a total of about 2,000 across the country, have formally left the national Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=384414\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schism is not a &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; event and is preferable to placating those who do not treat gays as equal simply for the sake of unity, a Canadian Anglican theologian says. &#8220;There are moments when treating unity as kind of absolute<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5174\">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":[36,388,74,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","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=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}