{"id":27309,"date":"2015-01-17T07:44:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T07:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=27309"},"modified":"2015-01-17T07:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T07:44:29","slug":"our-duty-to-engage-with-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/01\/17\/our-duty-to-engage-with-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Our duty to engage with politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this video by John Sentamu is a powerful justification for the engagement of churches, charities and civil society in politics. And it provides a powerful commentary on the need for equality. So I think it worth sharing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Archbishop of York &#039;On Rock Or Sand&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/owif6Cp0O-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I work with political parties - I will advise any that are not racist that want to talk to me - and am not a member of a political party.<\/p>\n<p>But that is different from being apolitical. We have a duty to be political because that is the process of asking questions abut the way the world we live in as managed. And that we must do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this video by John Sentamu is a powerful justification for the engagement of churches, charities and civil society in politics. And it provides<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/01\/17\/our-duty-to-engage-with-politics\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}