{"id":15498,"date":"2009-10-13T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/martin_beckford_why_does_the_church_of_england_recycle_its_sermons\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:01:17","slug":"martin_beckford_why_does_the_church_of_england_recycle_its_sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15498","title":{"rendered":"Martin Beckford: Why does the Church of England recycle its sermons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I go any further, I had better point out that I am fully aware that it\u2019s a bit rich of me to criticise clergy for recycling sermons when I referred to their obsession with all things ecological in my last column for the Church of England Newspaper. But I can guarantee I won&#8217;t do it again, whereas I doubt they could make the same promise.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I was saying, if you look at the website that lists all the press releases put out by Church House during 2009, the words climate (nine times) and environment (eight) crop up more times than God (six), Bible (four) or Jesus (two).<\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;re not ordering you to count your carbon or urging you to pray for the planet, they&#8217;re telling you much more than you ever wanted to know about compost toilets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/debates\/6308651\/Why-does-the-Church-of-England-recycle-its-sermons.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I go any further, I had better point out that I am fully aware that it\u2019s a bit rich of me to criticise clergy for recycling sermons when I referred to their obsession with all things ecological in my<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15498\">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":[36,48,40,50,74,389,140,199,435,184,439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-energy-natural-resources","category-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498","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=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}