{"id":24490,"date":"2016-11-01T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24490"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:05:06","slug":"what-advent-is-really-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-advent-is-really-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What Advent is really all about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming, of course. Fred Hiltz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joint-Avent-devotions-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">tells us so<\/a> in the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s 2016 Advent meditations. To clinch the point, Hiltz invokes a few inspirational apophthegms attributed to Saint Suzuki:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we consider God\u2019s creation,there is an urgency of concern about the global environmental crisis.We can no longer deny the harsh realities of islands drowning as sealevels rise; of deserts expanding in the face of unchecked deforestation; of weather patterns changing and growing violent as global warming continues; of lifestyles and livelihoods disappearing as the Arctic icecap melts.<br \/>\nReally coming to terms with these realities was very much the focus of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference\u2014COP21\u2014held in Paris. \u201cCOP21\u201d refers to the \u201dConference of Parties\u201d and to those countries which have adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In the midst of that great gathering of political and religious world leaders, and among thousands of ordinary citizens from every corner of the globe, a huge ecumenical service was held in Notre Dame Basilica. I had the great privilege of being there.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAware of the impact of the lifestyle of most of the developed countries, we need to call into question the logic of our consumption and to allow our attitude and witness to experience conversion\u2014 practising restraint and simplicity, not as a form of heroic renunciation, but as a form of joyful sharing. Our hope as Christians rests in our belief that our world is not destined to despair, but to transformation, and that human beings capable of self-destruction are also capable of uniting and choosing what is good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cconversion\u201d is the very thing that renowned environmentalist David Suzuki calls \u201cthe necessity for a massive change of spirit\u201d on the part of leaders in government and industry and on the part of consumers in society&#8230;which includes us all. Suzuki has said he looks to both business communities and faith communities to provide leadership in calling for this \u201cchange of spirit\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming, of course. Fred Hiltz tells us so in the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s 2016 Advent meditations. To clinch the point, Hiltz invokes a few inspirational apophthegms attributed to Saint Suzuki: As we consider God\u2019s creation,there is an urgency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-advent-is-really-all-about\/\">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":[2333],"tags":[1250],"class_list":["post-24490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","tag-primate-fred-hiltz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24490","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=24490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}