{"id":52542,"date":"2015-12-09T02:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/canadian_anglicanlutheran_leaders_encourage_support_for_refugees_in_christm\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T02:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:01:26","slug":"canadian_anglicanlutheran_leaders_encourage_support_for_refugees_in_christm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52542","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Anglican+Lutheran leaders encourage support for refugees in Christmas message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their annual joint Christmas greeting posted on YouTube December 4, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and Bishop Susan Johnson, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, urge church members to \u201cgive an extra gift\u201d\u009d in support of refugees.<\/p>\n<p>The message begins with Hiltz\u2019s reflection on the story of the birth of Jesus, focusing on the rather negative light in which we often see the innkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I read the Christmas story I\u2019m always taken by the way in which we portray the innkeeper as the one who said to Mary and Joseph, \u201d\u02dcNo room here,\u2019 when in fact he did provide them a warm and safe place for the birth of the holy child,\u201d\u009d Hiltz says. \u201cYes, it was a manger, but for them it was a warm place, and a safe place.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/hiltz-johnson-encourage-support-for-refugees-in-christmas-message\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their annual joint Christmas greeting posted on YouTube December 4, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and Bishop Susan Johnson, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, urge church members to \u201cgive an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52542\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,388,74,207,575,187,168,363,154,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542","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=52542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}