{"id":454,"date":"2008-02-26T20:41:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/02\/i-officially-give-up.html"},"modified":"2008-02-26T20:41:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T20:41:40","slug":"i-officially-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/02\/i-officially-give-up.html","title":{"rendered":"I officially give up…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…trying to understand the crisis in the Anglican communion.
\nThe acronyms have finally done it. I read Christopher Johnson<\/a> and Kendall<\/a> and Thinking Anglicans<\/a> and Stand Firm<\/a> and Captain Yips<\/a> and follow their links, and it all just gets murkier and murkier to me, because it’s finally dawning on me that there isn’t a united front on the “reasserter” side of the coin and so now, besides the basic divide I have to try understand the divisions within the divisions?
\nAnd now they’ve added some sort of anti-missile defense system or whatnot called GAFCON <\/a>to the mix?
\nI tried people. I really did. But GAFCON just broke my brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…trying to understand the crisis in the Anglican communion. The acronyms have finally done it. I read Christopher Johnson and Kendall and Thinking Anglicans and Stand Firm and Captain Yips and follow their links, and it all just gets murkier and murkier to me, because it’s finally dawning on me that there isn’t a united…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nI officially give up... - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/02\/i-officially-give-up.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I officially give up... - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"…trying to understand the crisis in the Anglican communion. 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