{"id":24839,"date":"2017-03-02T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24839"},"modified":"2017-03-02T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:11:37","slug":"a-safe-space-for-trumpophobics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-safe-space-for-trumpophobics\/","title":{"rendered":"A safe space for Trumpophobics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diocese of New Westminster along with St. Andrew\u2019s-Wesley United Church, representatives of the fastest declining denominations in North America, are banding together \u201cto offer an antidote to the fear and despair\u201d<\/em> resulting from democracy in action in the USA.<\/p>\n

Franklin Graham seems to have been the catalyst for this but honourable mention is given to \u201cright-wing groups\u201d<\/em> in Europe, Vladimir Putin and Rodrigo Duerte. \u201cThe list goes on\u201d<\/em> as the article below notes, but it doesn\u2019t go on to include Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, Iraq or any of the other countries that concentrate much of their national energy on persecuting Christians.<\/p>\n

The featured speakers include an imam, a Zen Buddhist and Michael Ingham, one of the most divisive Anglican bishops of the 20th<\/sup> Century. \u00a0Anglicans should feel quite at home.<\/p>\n

The event is called: Hope Amidst the Politics of Fear: Conversations for Creative Resistance<\/a>. Even though Franklin Graham will be in Vancouver, he hasn\u2019t been invited to state his side of the story; liberals generally can\u2019t cope when both sides of an argument are presented. Their brains shut down in self-defensive panic. These days, I think it\u2019s called \u201ctriggering\u201d.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"People have been confiding in Vancouver Rev. Gary Paterson that they\u2019re having trouble feeling hopeful.<\/p>\n

In a political era characterized by U.S. President Donald Trump, growing immigrant-skeptic movements in Europe and the murder of six Quebec Muslims, the minister at St. Andrew\u2019s-Wesley United Church wanted to offer an antidote to the fear and despair he\u2019s hearing from members of his church and the public.<\/p>\n

So Paterson, past moderator of the United Church of Canada, teamed up with another downtown Vancouver clergyman, Rev. Peter Elliot of Christ Church (Anglican) Cathedral, to have a multi-faith group of speakers lead a four-part series in March titled Hope Amidst the Politics of Fear: Conversations for Creative Resistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s partly a reaction to what\u2019s happening in the United States. But the U.S. has such an influence on the world, especially Canada,\u201d Paterson said, noting the city has been divided by the Vancouver crusade of American evangelist Franklin Graham, a major Trump supporter, to be held March 3-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also a reaction to reports from Europe about right-wing groups gaining traction \u2026 and to the aplomb with which (Russian President Vladimir) Putin seems to be acting these days and to (strongman Rodrigo) Duerte in the Philippines. The list goes on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Diocese of New Westminster along with St. Andrew\u2019s-Wesley United Church, representatives of the fastest declining denominations in North America, are banding together \u201cto offer an antidote to the fear and despair\u201d resulting from democracy in action in the USA. … Continue reading →<\/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":[109,1],"tags":[2403,1682,2435],"class_list":["post-24839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-franklin-graham","tag-peter-elliot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839","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=24839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}