{"id":79019,"date":"2019-02-27T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79019"},"modified":"2019-02-27T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:07:32","slug":"yorkshire-post-church-of-england-vows-to-act-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79019","title":{"rendered":"(Yorkshire Post) Church of England vows to act on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England recognises \u201cthe escalating threat to God\u2019s creation from global warming\u201d and is to step up its efforts to combat climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The Church\u2019s governing body, the General Synod, voted in favour of a motion on Friday which called for dioceses to focus on reducing their environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p>The Synod voted overwhelmingly for the motion, with 279 supporting it, three opposing and four abstaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Truro, Philip Mounstephen, introduced the motion, saying: \u201cClimate change cannot be a matter of indifference for any of us and we cannot underestimate the seriousness of this&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/church-of-england-vows-to-act-on-climate-change-1-9612294\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England recognises \u201cthe escalating threat to God\u2019s creation from global warming\u201d and is to step up its efforts to combat climate change. The Church\u2019s governing body, the General Synod, voted in favour of a motion on Friday<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79019\">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":[389,115,168,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-climate-change-weather","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79019","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=79019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79022,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79019\/revisions\/79022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}