{"id":27672,"date":"2015-02-04T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=27672"},"modified":"2015-02-04T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:26:11","slug":"why-the-church-of-england-should-be-demanding-tax-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/04\/why-the-church-of-england-should-be-demanding-tax-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Church of England should be demanding tax justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just mentioned<a title=\"Why the Church of England should be demanding tax justice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/04\/why-the-church-of-england-should-be-demanding-tax-justice\/\"> that Archbishop Justin Welby has called the tax justice today<\/a>, but so he should. In 1984 the Church of England the doctor what might be best called a mission statement. \u00a0 It was entitled '<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/ministry\/mission\/fivemarks.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"> Five Marks of Mission'<\/a>. The first three \u00a0objectives might be said to relate to the work of the Church in promoting its faith but the fourth and fifth interesting, and say that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mission of the Church is the mission of Christ:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To seek to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation<\/li>\n<li>To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If these are the \u00a0core objectives of the Church of England then I would suggest that it has no choice but to support tax justice and a progressive taxation system both here and throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>It also has no choice but be green.<\/p>\n<p>So why it is news when it actually says so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just mentioned that Archbishop Justin Welby has called the tax justice today, but so he should. In 1984 the Church of England the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/04\/why-the-church-of-england-should-be-demanding-tax-justice\/\"><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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27672","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=27672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}