{"id":24024,"date":"2016-06-23T22:28:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24024"},"modified":"2016-06-23T22:30:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:30:22","slug":"diocese-of-new-westminster-blesses-a-petrochemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-new-westminster-blesses-a-petrochemical\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of New Westminster blesses a petrochemical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demon fossil fuel \u2013 oil \u2013 is being blessed by Bishop Melissa Skelton; but only if it is to be used on a bicycle chain. If only I lived in Vancouver: I would have a can of oil blessed and pour it into my SUV \u2013 well, I don\u2019t actually <em>have<\/em> an SUV but I would be sorely tempted to go out and buy one.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/news\/vancouver\/2016\/06\/22\/vancouver-cyclists-can-get-their-bikes-anointed-by-a-priest.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Praying a blessing over a canister of bicycle chain oil may seem unorthodox, but the Anglican Bishop of New Westminster assured Metro her ritual, conducted Wednesday, was doctrinally sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it\u2019s something I\u2019m allowed to do,\u201d Rt. Rev. Melissa Skelton said with a laugh, as she stood on the lawn of the Diocesan offices in Shaughnessy. \u201cIt\u2019s the every day and the useful where God shows up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, we\u2019re blessing things \u2026 that lead to better stewardship of the environment. It starts with the small and goes bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>Adapting the ritual for chain lubricant may seem unusual, but the ideas of community and being anointed for action in the world is related to environmental commitments, Skelton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is also the oil used in vehicles that would be the implements of action \u2014 protecting the climate and finding other ways to get around that don\u2019t depend so much on large amounts of fossil fuels,\u201d she explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demon fossil fuel \u2013 oil \u2013 is being blessed by Bishop Melissa Skelton; but only if it is to be used on a bicycle chain. If only I lived in Vancouver: I would have a can of oil blessed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-new-westminster-blesses-a-petrochemical\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[1765,2110,716],"class_list":["post-24024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-bishop-melissa-skelton","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24024","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=24024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}