{"id":24856,"date":"2017-02-22T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=24856"},"modified":"2022-08-17T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:30:50","slug":"voices-the-place-of-christianity-within-the-contemporary-canadian-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2017\/02\/22\/voices-the-place-of-christianity-within-the-contemporary-canadian-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: How to be a faithful Christian within Canada&#8217;s cultural and faith mosaic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Clarke, senior editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Christian Week<\/em><\/a>, wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianweek.org\/place-christianity-canadas-faith-mosaic\/\">How to be a faithful Christian within Canada&#8217;s cultural and faith mosaic<\/a>,\u00a0which\u00a0I invite you\u00a0to read for his\u00a0important ideas about\u00a0the church and its <strong>mission<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff writes that we must resist the lure of using the <strong>power of the state<\/strong> to do what can only be done by the power of the Holy Spirit. He notes that &#8220;corporate change can only come&nbsp;through individual change&#8221; and that Christianity needs to be <em>accepted<\/em>, not <em>enforced<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff&#8217;s post is an important caution as to how we Christians choose to advance the mission of the church. My related post is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2015\/12\/14\/christians-and-the-power-of-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christians and the Power of the State<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff also&nbsp;mentions two other themes I&#8217;ve written about in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/category\/community-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Leadership<\/a> category of posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2015\/11\/16\/pluralisms-challenges-and-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pluralism in Canada<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2015\/11\/23\/the-powerful-pull-of-the-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Longing for a golden past<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God bless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Clarke, senior editor of Christian Week, wrote a post entitled The place of Christianity within the contemporary Canadian landscape, <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2017\/02\/22\/voices-the-place-of-christianity-within-the-contemporary-canadian-landscape\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"freeimages.com\/Christopher Bruno","footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[346],"series":[],"class_list":["post-24856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices","tag-church-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24856"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=24856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}