{"id":9117,"date":"2011-10-19T08:48:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T21:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2011-10-19T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T21:48:25","slug":"hansard-document-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/10\/19\/hansard-document-civility\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansard document: Civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2011\/10\/HansardTasHoA21september2.pdf\">Hansard Tasmania &#8211; 21 September 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I read through this document, I feel distressed at the way our politicians talk to and treat each other.<\/p>\n<p>One question would address the Christian politicians and ask how Jesus would have them act in the face of such behaviour?<\/p>\n<p>But the issue of civility is not just for politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Civility or rather the lack of it,\u00a0is a major issue for us in Australia today.<\/p>\n<p>How do we speak of similarity and difference in our understandings and across social, economic, racial, religious, educational\u00a0and ethnic differences?<\/p>\n<p>I apply this challenge to myself. To what extent do I allow the Holy Spirit to apply the\u00a0The Beatitudes of Jesus (Matthew 5) to my daily relationships? And in particular, when I am discussing differences of opinion?<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier article I addressed the\u00a0topic by suggesting reading for our Tasmanian Anglican &#8216;Parliament&#8217;, our\u00a0Synod! See,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/06\/02\/synod-required-reading\/\">Synod: required reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are to be learners after the example of Jesus Christ. Note the power of the question in Jesus&#8217; conversations and also his use of stories.<\/p>\n<p>May the Holy Spirit give us wisdom and civility, beginning with me. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hansard Tasmania &#8211; 21 September 2011 As I read through this document, I feel distressed at the way our politicians talk to and treat each other. One question would address the Christian politicians and ask how Jesus would have them &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/10\/19\/hansard-document-civility\/\">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\/9117"}],"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=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9158,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions\/9158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}