{"id":56494,"date":"2016-11-27T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/aj_churches_should_do_more_to_end_racism_says_lutheran_partner\/"},"modified":"2016-11-27T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T17:00:07","slug":"aj_churches_should_do_more_to_end_racism_says_lutheran_partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56494","title":{"rendered":"(AJ) Churches should do more to end racism, says Lutheran partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-racist activism could be an excellent opportunity for Lutheran and Anglican congregations to engage in grass-roots ecumenical action, says Pat Lovell, representative to Council of General Synod (CoGS) from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have this close relationship, we have power together, and I\u2019d like to see us do more work together at the grassroots,\u201d\u009d Lovell told CoGs in a November 19 partner\u2019s reflection, noting that while both churches are involved in initiatives around responsible resource development, homelessness and poverty, there has been less co-operation on anti-racism.<\/p>\n<p>Lovell said the recent defacement of a synagogue, a church and a mosque in Ottawa, is a reminder that racism and anti-Semitism remain problems in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/churches-should-do-more-to-end-racism-says-lutheran-partner\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-racist activism could be an excellent opportunity for Lutheran and Anglican congregations to engage in grass-roots ecumenical action, says Pat Lovell, representative to Council of General Synod (CoGS) from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). \u201cWe have this close<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56494\">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":[36,39,50,42,388,74,207,158,363,154,120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-ecumenical-relations","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56494","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=56494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}