{"id":1101,"date":"2007-02-14T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2007-02-14T10:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T14:09:25","slug":"im-glad-im-not-the-holy-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not the Holy Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because, to judge from the reports emerging from Dar-es-Salaam, the Holy Spirit has told Rowan Williams to recognise two Anglican churches in the <span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span>; <del>it<\/del> He has told Katherine Jefferts Schori that one is quite enough. So what <del>it<\/del> She now needs to supply to Dr Williams is the speech that will persuade Dr Schori not merely to acquiesce in the establishment of a parallel Anglican organisation in North America, founded on the assumption that she is a heretic, but that she should pay for it as well. Like I said, I&#8217;m glad this isn&#8217;t my job, because I can&#8217;t begin to conceive of an argument that would carry any weight with her.<\/p>\n\n<p>About Dr Akinola I have nothing to add, except that he can&#8217;t see an episcopal lawn without planting a tank on it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Yet there remains one simple gesture that Dr Williams could make which would solve the whole problem. If reports are true that the persecuted and reviled Nigerian gay Christian Davis Mac Iyalla has turned up for this meeting, all he has to do is to leave the bunker and embrace him publicly as a gesture that God loves such people even if the Anglican Communion is divided over how to express this love. I am reasonably certain that this would solve the problem of who stays in Communion with whom right there on the spot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because, to judge from the reports emerging from Dar-es-Salaam, the Holy Spirit has told Rowan Williams to recognise two Anglican churches in the <span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span>; it He has told Katherine Jefferts Schori that one is quite enough. So what it She &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}