{"id":1970,"date":"2009-12-02T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2009-12-02T22:56:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T11:56:52","slug":"parliament-world-religions-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/12\/02\/parliament-world-religions-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament World Religions Day -1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things are certainly gearing up for our start tomorrow: hence ‘Day -1’ in the title\u00a0(sorry!). The ABC has established a blog ‘Talking of Faith’ with Margaret Coffey<\/a>\u00a0and various commentators. Initial article includes:<\/p>\n

As the PWR gets under way, some interesting statistics about religion in Australia have been published by the Christian Research Association<\/a>. The CRA has looked at the 2006 Census to survey the connection between higher education and religious affirmation. . . .<\/p>\n

of Christian denominations in Australia, by far the most educated are the Coptic Orthodox, with 40 per cent having a university education.<\/p>\n

And interestingly, while those who identify with a Christian denomination have, on average, lower levels of formal education, most people who attend church (as distinct from identifying with a denomination) are more highly educated than the nation as a whole.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am attending the Parliament of World Religions (PWR) over the coming week and am excited at meeting people from diverse religious traditions and learning and exchanging views. I am preaching on Sunday morning at an Anglican worship service led by Archbishop Philip Freier of Melbourne. This is a program option at the Parliament and we are praying for non-Christian people to attend. Please pray with us and for us.<\/p>\n

Various recent articles are relevant: Religious policy, multi-faith dialogue and Australian values<\/a>;\u00a0 and\u00a0 ‘Multi-faith society’: an oxymoron?<\/a>\u00a0 and \u00a0Swiss minaret ban is bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things are certainly gearing up for our start tomorrow: hence ‘Day -1’ in the title\u00a0(sorry!). The ABC has established a blog ‘Talking of Faith’ with Margaret Coffey\u00a0and various commentators. Initial article includes: As the PWR gets under way, some interesting … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}