{"id":35427,"date":"2012-11-01T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/acc-15-environmental_change_not_a_secular_fuss_imported_into_the_church_bu\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:00:38","slug":"acc-15-environmental_change_not_a_secular_fuss_imported_into_the_church_bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35427","title":{"rendered":"ACC-15&#8211;Environmental change not \u201ca secular fuss imported into the church\u201d\u009d but a moral issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ACNS) Abp [Thabo] Makgoba, who is the Chair of Anglican Communion Environmental Network, said \u201cWhat might a world where Christians take their moral responsibilities seriously look like?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur network tries to link people from different Provinces to reflect on the environment. It is hoped that we will have representatives throughout the Communion. Even at this stage we are calling for those Provinces without an environmental network to appoint one.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the nexus of water, food and energy, Abp Thabo asked the audience: \u201cWhen you are receiving Communion, have you stopped to think about the water that we use to mix with the wine. Where has it come from? How clean is that water? Have you stopped to think about&#8230;those who do not have access to basic and of the resultant illnesses that go with poor sanitation and water? When you receive&#8230;wafers, have you spared a thought for those who do not have food?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/news.cfm\/2012\/11\/1\/ACNS5225\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ACNS) Abp [Thabo] Makgoba, who is the Chair of Anglican Communion Environmental Network, said \u201cWhat might a world where Christians take their moral responsibilities seriously look like? \u201cOur network tries to link people from different Provinces to reflect on the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35427\">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":[36,40,399,62,74,140,168,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-consultative-council","category-anglican-provinces","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35427","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=35427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}