{"id":85312,"date":"2019-10-08T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85312"},"modified":"2019-10-08T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T00:29:52","slug":"diocese-of-oxford-a-christian-response-to-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85312","title":{"rendered":"(Diocese of Oxford) A Christian response to Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>&#8211;Watch over other faith and minority ethnic communities. Hate crimes and crimes against other faiths increased after the 2016 referendum. Reconnect with the mosques, synagogues and gudwaras in your area.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;Encourage truthful and honest debate. The renewal of our politics will need to be local as well as national. Plan now to host hustings during the General Election campaign. Don\u2019t be afraid of the political space but step into it with a message of faith, hope and love.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;Pray in public worship and private prayer for the healing of our political life, for wisdom for those who lead us, for reconciliation between communities and for stability in our government.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Don\u2019t underestimate what we can achieve if every church, chaplaincy and school does something and if every Christian disciple takes some action, however small.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t take on too much either: loving our neighbour through the Brexit process needs to be woven into everything we do anyway, not simply added into busy lives. Don\u2019t be limited by this checklist \u2013 you might have even better ideas. If you do, spread them around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxford.anglican.org\/brexit\/#toggle-id-1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Watch over other faith and minority ethnic communities. Hate crimes and crimes against other faiths increased after the 2016 referendum. Reconnect with the mosques, synagogues and gudwaras in your area. &#8211;Encourage truthful and honest debate. The renewal of our politics<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85312\">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":[389,199,168,200,144,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85312","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=85312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85314,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85312\/revisions\/85314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}