{"id":53948,"date":"2016-03-31T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_today_an_interview_with_archbishop_of_canterbury_justin_welby\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T21:00:33","slug":"christian_today_an_interview_with_archbishop_of_canterbury_justin_welby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53948","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Ruth Mawhinney&#8211;An interview with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what about some of the bigger religious questions that are being posed in the world right now? We are speaking the day after the Brussels attacks, at a time of heightened hostility towards Muslims. #StopIslam was trending on Twitter as we spoke. Is this our problem? Yes. Welby thinks we have a responsibility to &#8220;demonstrate hospitality for mainstream Muslim leaders who themselves have taken huge risks and are suffering very significant threats when they stand up against attacks like Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Secondly, I think we have a responsibility to be part of the process of developing a narrative that is more attractive within our society than the perverted, cruel and savage narrative which takes young men in particular, but women as well, into extremist action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hostility to all Muslims because they&#8217;re Muslims \u201d\u201c although we disagree as Christians with their theology \u201d\u201c is a deeply unChristian and wrong way of behaving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/evangelism.in.an.age.of.terror.homophobia.and.indifference.an.interview.with.archbishop.of.canterbury.justin.welby\/83040.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what about some of the bigger religious questions that are being posed in the world right now? We are speaking the day after the Brussels attacks, at a time of heightened hostility towards Muslims. #StopIslam was trending on Twitter as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53948\">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":[36,382,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53948","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=53948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}