{"id":51995,"date":"2015-10-09T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_hoxton_church_reaches_out_to_technology_sector\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T15:00:04","slug":"church_times_hoxton_church_reaches_out_to_technology_sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51995","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Hoxton church reaches out to technology sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Church on the corner of London\u2019s tech hub is starting to build links with the industry. St John\u2019s, Hoxton, is close to Old Street roundabout, often nicknamed Silicon Roundabout because of the proliferation of start-ups and technology firms in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Vicar, the Revd Graham Hunter, said that he had begun to try to bring Christian technologists together two years ago. \u201cBeing in Hoxton, and having Silicon Roundabout and Shoreditch right on the doorstep, I had this sense we needed to engage with that sector,\u201d\u009d Mr Hunter said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, he met two Christians who worked in the industry, and they began using St John\u2019s to host a fortnightly gathering, Tech City Christians. \u201cThey wanted to network, and also pray for each other, and support one another in living out their faith in this sector; getting people to share their stories about what\u2019s going well, and what their struggles are.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/9-october\/news\/uk\/hoxton-church-reaches-out-to-technology-sector\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Church on the corner of London\u2019s tech hub is starting to build links with the industry. St John\u2019s, Hoxton, is close to Old Street roundabout, often nicknamed Silicon Roundabout because of the proliferation of start-ups and technology firms in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51995\">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":[36,48,39,40,74,389,589,149,168,184,177,108,95,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51995","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=51995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}