{"id":39337,"date":"2013-08-01T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_anglican_church_sets_its_sights_on_predatory_lenders\/"},"modified":"2013-08-01T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T16:26:31","slug":"csm_anglican_church_sets_its_sights_on_predatory_lenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39337","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Anglican Church sets its sights on predatory lenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not the ideal start to the Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s grand initiative to bring a new morality to Britain&#8217;s banking sector&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the stumble out of the gate, Welby appears committed to taking on payday loans \u201d\u201c small, high-interest, short-term loans to those who can&#8217;t get credit elsewhere \u201d\u201c as a means of &#8220;speaking for the poor.&#8221; And his plan raises questions about just how much clout the Church of England wields through its portfolio of investments and through the influence the church has over its flock \u201d\u201c how it ought to wield it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Europe\/2013\/0731\/Anglican-Church-sets-its-sights-on-predatory-lenders\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not the ideal start to the Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s grand initiative to bring a new morality to Britain&#8217;s banking sector&#8230;. But despite the stumble out of the gate, Welby appears committed to taking on payday loans \u201d\u201c small,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39337\">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":[36,40,50,382,74,67,389,589,149,199,168,593,151,585,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39337","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=39337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}