{"id":12264,"date":"2009-04-13T17:10:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T17:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/we_need_spirituality_not_a_spending_spree_archbishop_of_canterbury_argues\/"},"modified":"2009-04-13T17:10:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T17:10:49","slug":"we_need_spirituality_not_a_spending_spree_archbishop_of_canterbury_argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12264","title":{"rendered":"We need spirituality, not a spending spree, Archbishop of Canterbury argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged Gordon Brown\u2019s plans for Britain to spend its way out of the recession and instead called on consumers to curb their appetites.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rowan Williams used his Easter sermon to advocate a return to the spiritual values embraced by monastic communities \u201d\u201d poverty, chastity and obedience.<\/p>\n<p>His message was echoed by Church leaders around the country, putting them on a collision course with the Government and its solution to the economic crisis, which is to persuade shoppers to start buying again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article6081678.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged Gordon Brown\u2019s plans for Britain to spend its way out of the recession and instead called on consumers to curb their appetites. Dr Rowan Williams used his Easter sermon to advocate a return to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12264\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,67,187,582,571,149,199,593,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-easter","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","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=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}