{"id":16666,"date":"2009-12-14T01:16:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T01:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_archbishop_of_canterbury_on_bbc_2s_pause_for_thought\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T01:16:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T01:16:29","slug":"the_archbishop_of_canterbury_on_bbc_2s_pause_for_thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16666","title":{"rendered":"The Archbishop of Canterbury on BBC 2&#39;s Pause for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.a couple of weeks ago, I had a visitor from the Pacific, who told me about how his island and some of its neighbours were actually going to be uninhabitable in a few years time because of rising water levels \u201d\u201c almost certainly connected with climate change.<\/p>\n<p>That brings it home all right.  It&#8217;s not quite good enough to say it&#8217;s all too difficult \u201d\u201c or that it&#8217;s nothing to do with religion anyway.  We&#8217;re getting ready for Christmas; and it&#8217;s worth remembering that one of the things we celebrate at Christmas is God taking an interest in the real material stuff of this earth, the flesh and blood, and all the things that keep flesh and blood secure \u201d\u201c food and shelter and so on.  It would be pretty peculiar if we took the world less seriously than God does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/2652\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.a couple of weeks ago, I had a visitor from the Pacific, who told me about how his island and some of its neighbours were actually going to be uninhabitable in a few years time because of rising water levels<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16666\">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":[36,39,74,67,389,115,168,119,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-climate-change-weather","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666","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=16666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}