{"id":988,"date":"2009-09-29T01:14:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=988"},"modified":"2009-09-29T01:14:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:14:47","slug":"leadership-a-bishops-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/09\/29\/leadership-a-bishops-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership &#8211; a bishop&#8217;s view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bishop is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Prime Minister<\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Monarch<\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Speaker<\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Scapegoat<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>A bishop is more than a presbyter:\u00a0the shepherd\u2019s crook, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">pastoral staff<\/span>, which is given to the bishop at the consecration service speaks of the bishop&#8217;s role of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">nourishment<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">cautioning<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And what of a bishop&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">rootlessness,<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">isolation<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">digestion!?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The above diverse aspects of\u00a0episcopal leadership in the Anglican Church come\u00a0via the Bishop of Bendigo and Primate&#8217;s letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bishop Andrew Curnow recently referred me to an article in the <em>Church Times<\/em>, September 4, 2009 by the Rt Rev\u2019d Kenneth Stevenson, outgoing Bishop of Portsmouth, about\u00a0 being a bishop. I believe +Kenneth\u2019s observations are thought-provoking, and I trust might prompt our own reflections on the nature and challenges of the episcopal office.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=80823\">The text of the article is available to download <\/a>from the <em>Church Times<\/em> website. The article itself is an edited extract from +Kenneth\u2019s farewell address to his diocesan synod in June of this year is at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsmouth.anglican.org\/bishop\/sermons_speeches\/sermons_and_speeches_2009\/presidential_address_to_diocesan_synod_june_09\/\">The Business of Bishoping \u2013 a Bottom Up Theology<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bishop is a Prime Minister \u2013 Monarch \u2013 Speaker \u2013 Scapegoat. A bishop is more than a presbyter:\u00a0the shepherd\u2019s crook, pastoral staff, which is given to the bishop at the consecration service speaks of the bishop&#8217;s role of\u00a0nourishment and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/09\/29\/leadership-a-bishops-view\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}