{"id":51882,"date":"2015-10-01T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_justin_welbys_sermon_at_commissioning_of_church_credit_champions\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:00:52","slug":"archbishop_justin_welbys_sermon_at_commissioning_of_church_credit_champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51882","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Justin Welby&#39;s sermon at commissioning of Church Credit Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who are shortly going to be commissioned as Church Credit Champions have heard God\u2019s call, as the whole church has in recent years, to be a church of the poor for the poor; to seek justice and the common good for all in our society.<\/p>\n<p>You have set up credit union access points in your churches, brought new people onto the boards of local credit unions, supported people struggling with debt through signposting them to debt advice resources.<\/p>\n<p>You have seen the need, and you have met it with love, grace and hope.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that the Christian relationship with money is, at best, slightly ambivalent. We recognise when it\u2019s got the wrong place, but we find it quite hard to find the right place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/5620\/archbishops-sermon-at-commissioning-of-church-credit-champions\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who are shortly going to be commissioned as Church Credit Champions have heard God\u2019s call, as the whole church has in recent years, to be a church of the poor for the poor; to seek justice and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51882\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,382,67,149,199,168,435,184,593,439,108,585,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-personal-finance","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51882","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=51882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}