{"id":15667,"date":"2012-02-14T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15667"},"modified":"2012-02-14T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T18:09:17","slug":"anglicans-address-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicans-address-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicans address poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, more accurately, Anglicans pester the government to address poverty, because that\u2019s what the Bible says you are supposed to do. For example, in 2 Thessalonians 3:10-13; oops, well in Matthew 26:11; OK, let\u2019s try Matthew 25:40; how about <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">Luke 6:38,<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">Proverbs 14:21<\/span>, <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">Luke 3:10-11<\/span> or\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">Proverbs 28:27<\/span> <\/span><\/span>. I know it\u2019s there <em>somewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allsaintskingsway.ca\/index.php\/-home-footermenu-17\/24-bulletin-board\/2290-address-poverty-\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of a diocesan wide program to encourage the government to take measures to reduce poverty, several MPPs were visited by concerned Christians.\u00a0 Bishop Philip Poole wrote the following:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;We are fully cognizant of the fact that these are difficult times for our government. It is even more difficult for poor people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As part of a diocesan wide program to encourage the government to take measures to reduce poverty, Laurel Broten MPP was recently visited by Ruth Schembri of this parish and Gordon Glandfield of Christ Church St. James along with parishioners from Kingsway Lambton United Church and Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church.\u00a0\u00a0 A similar visit was made to MPP Donna Cansfield with Bishop Philip Poole in attendance who wrote the following in his follow-up letter:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;We are fully cognizant of the fact that these are difficult times for our government. It is even more difficult for poor people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, more accurately, Anglicans pester the government to address poverty, because that\u2019s what the Bible says you are supposed to do. For example, in 2 Thessalonians 3:10-13; oops, well in Matthew 26:11; OK, let\u2019s try Matthew 25:40; how about Luke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicans-address-poverty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2254],"class_list":["post-15667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}