{"id":21542,"date":"2014-05-23T21:41:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21542"},"modified":"2014-05-23T22:19:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T02:19:23","slug":"churches-turning-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/churches-turning-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches turning green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up in Wales, a sacred space becoming green would mean that moss was thriving on the local church roof. Today, <em>Greening Sacred Spaces<\/em> is an invitation to, among other things, prevent draughts in church buildings \u2013 a tragic mistake for many parishes, since that is the only breath of fresh air the congregation will ever experience \u2013 in order to focus on the clich\u00e9 <span class=\"illustration\">du jour<\/span>: mission. No-one seems to have noticed that the mission of most mainline denominations <em>is<\/em> the greening of their sacred space: promising a false gospel of eco-redemption to carbon addicted sinners.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.ca\/news\/greening-sacred-spaces-call-for-building-audit-applications\/3003523\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you want to make your church building a safer and more hospitable space for worship and fellowship? Are drafty windows and leaking taps drawing time and money away from mission and outreach? Does your parish need support in reducing ecological footprints and improving\u00a0sustainability? If you answered yes to any of the above, then Creation Matters has an affordable and effective program to help get you started.<\/p>\n<p>Creation Matters, the environmental working group of the Anglican Church of Canada, is partnering with Greening Sacred Spaces, a service offered through Faith &amp; the Common Good, to offer Green Building Audits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are not yet convinced that you should take a green audit, there is a Greening Sacred Spaces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GreeningSacredSpaces\" target=\"_blank\">youtube channel<\/a> where you can listen to an imam \u2013 who sounds uncannily like a common or garden Anglican bishop &#8211; explain that mankind\u2019s problems are all caused by our failing to live in harmony with nature; that, he tells us, is the central message of all \u201csacred\u201d texts. He didn&#8217;t get around to singing \u201cAll you Need is Love\u201d, but I know he wanted to.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Care for Creation\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/biSGeMNCUbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If Anglicans won&#8217;t listen to an imam, who <em>will<\/em> they listen to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up in Wales, a sacred space becoming green would mean that moss was thriving on the local church roof. Today, Greening Sacred Spaces is an invitation to, among other things, prevent draughts in church buildings \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/churches-turning-green\/\">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":[126],"tags":[1804,1803],"class_list":["post-21542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco-cobblers","tag-eco-babble","tag-greening-sacred-spaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21542","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=21542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}