{"id":4606,"date":"2010-07-03T23:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2010-07-03T23:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:56:06","slug":"campaigning-to-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/07\/03\/campaigning-to-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Campaigning to Christians&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Campaigning to Christians&#8217; is a Eureka Street article which considers\u00a0the effective participation of Christian groups\u00a0in federal elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two questions for individual churches and agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The first is how to intervene in the forthcoming election, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>The second is, if they do intervene, what issues should they prioritise in order to engage with the mainstream contest while remaining true to their Christian principles?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekastreet.com.au\/article.aspx?aeid=22120\">Campaigning to Christians<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For an example of\u00a0Christians participating in politics see\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/07\/03\/wilberforce-and-co-%e2%80%98liberating-the-captives%e2%80%99\/\">Wilberforce and Co. &#8216;Liberating the Captives&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Campaigning to Christians&#8217; is a Eureka Street article which considers\u00a0the effective participation of Christian groups\u00a0in federal elections. There are two questions for individual churches and agencies. The first is how to intervene in the forthcoming election, if at all. The &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/07\/03\/campaigning-to-christians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/4606"}],"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=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}