Then the chief captain came near, and took him [Paul], and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. Acts 21:33

In the early church, the civil authorities were inclined to bind Christians with chains for spreading the Gospel.

Today Anglican clergy bind themselves with chains because they don’t like the civil authorities spreading oil through a pipe.

We can thank the Anglican church for this deeply profound new understanding of Christian chain hermeneutics.

From here:

The only two protesters arrested at the Trans Mountain pipeline project to be found guilty of civil contempt of court have been sentenced to seven days in jail and ordered to pay $2,000 of the company’s legal costs.

Anglican priest Rev. Laurel Dykstra and Lini Hutchings, one of her parishioners, were taken into custody May 25 after tearing down a fence and chaining themselves to a tree at the company’s tank facility in Burnaby.

Like dozens of other protesters who were arrested, they were charged with criminal contempt of court.

But in August, Dykstra, a 52-year-old mother of two, and Hutchings, a 48-year-old mother of two, saw those charges dropped by the Crown.

The Crown set aside charges against 15 other protesters, but proceeded with criminal contempt charges against more than 200 others.

Among the protesters who had their charges dropped, Trans Mountain elected to proceed with civil contempt of court charges only against Dykstra and Hutchings, according to their lawyer.