{"id":51397,"date":"2015-09-01T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/statement_from_the_canadian_anglican_primate_on_the_world_day_of_prayer_for\/"},"modified":"2015-09-01T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T17:00:02","slug":"statement_from_the_canadian_anglican_primate_on_the_world_day_of_prayer_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51397","title":{"rendered":"Statement from the Canadian Anglican Primate on the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worldwide Anglican Communion\u2019s fifth Mark of Mission calls us \u201cto strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth.\u201d\u009d Canadian Anglicans are especially conscious of our obligations as caretakers of (in the words of one of our eucharistic prayers) \u201cthis fragile earth, our island home.\u201d\u009d We are now reminded of it when we renew our baptismal vows. The recent meeting of the Sacred Circle further called to mind the special relationship Indigenous people have with the land, and the often damaging effect settlers continue to have.<\/p>\n<p>I therefore invite all members of the Anglican Church of Canada to join with me on September 1 and pray in an especially intentional way for the integrity of God\u2019s creation, and for the will and the means to confront and resolve the ecological crisis our planet is facing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.ca\/news\/statement-from-the-primate-on-the-world-day-of-prayer-for-the-care-of-creation\/30012266\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worldwide Anglican Communion\u2019s fifth Mark of Mission calls us \u201cto strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth.\u201d\u009d Canadian Anglicans are especially conscious of our obligations as caretakers of (in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51397\">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":[36,48,39,40,388,74,140,168,119,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397","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=51397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}