{"id":21038,"date":"2014-02-21T22:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T03:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21038"},"modified":"2014-02-21T22:55:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T03:55:24","slug":"an-anglican-lent-welcome-to-your-carbon-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-anglican-lent-welcome-to-your-carbon-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anglican Lent: welcome to your Carbon Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may be under the impression that Lent is a time of spiritual and mental preparation for Easter. Not according to contemporary Anglican dogma; Lent has a \u201cdeeper challenge\u201d than preparing for such trifles as the atonement and resurrection. What it\u2019s <i>really<\/i> about is using less fossil fuel so that we can create a \u201csustainable world\u201d, the only world left to clergy who have ceased to believe in the next.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2014\/02\/anglicans-urged-to-carbon-fast-for-lent.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Anglican Communion\u2019s Environmental Network (ACEN) is encouraging Christians around the world to take part in a \u201ccarbon-fast\u201d this Lent.<\/p>\n<p>The network is calling on Anglicans to take a deeper challenge than fasting from coffee, alcohol or chocolates this Lent, by reducing the use of carbon based fuels on which we all depend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take small steps for a more sustainable world, and by doing so rediscover a different relationship with God, with Creation and with one another,\u201d the group says on its website, adding: \u201cI can change the world a little in 40 days, but I can change myself a lot!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the truly green, terminal Anglican there is the Eco Container, as advertised in that bastion of anti-transcendence, the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagaraanglican.ca\/newspaper\/docs\/2014\/mar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara Anglican<\/a>. In my Angligreen house there are many mansions \u2013 they all look like boxes, though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21039\" alt=\"21-02-2014 10-38-38 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/21-02-2014-10-38-38-PM.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/21-02-2014-10-38-38-PM.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/21-02-2014-10-38-38-PM-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/21-02-2014-10-38-38-PM-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be under the impression that Lent is a time of spiritual and mental preparation for Easter. Not according to contemporary Anglican dogma; Lent has a \u201cdeeper challenge\u201d than preparing for such trifles as the atonement and resurrection. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-anglican-lent-welcome-to-your-carbon-fast\/\">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":[204],"tags":[2124,2189],"class_list":["post-21038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent","tag-eco-cobblers","tag-lent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038","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=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}