{"id":28444,"date":"2011-09-26T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/learn_the_lingo_says_bishop_of_bradford_on_the_20th_anniversary_of_meissen_\/"},"modified":"2011-09-26T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T16:00:29","slug":"learn_the_lingo_says_bishop_of_bradford_on_the_20th_anniversary_of_meissen_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28444","title":{"rendered":"Learn the lingo says Bishop of Bradford on the 20th anniversary of Meissen Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We should embrace other languages and cultures, particularly those of our European neighbours, says the Bishop of Bradford the Rt Revd Nick Baines in a Church of England podcast, published today, to celebrate 20 years of Anglo-German ecumenical links. Both in business and in the classroom we need to broaden our horizons, he adds, or we are in danger of missing out.<\/p>\n<p>The Meissen Agreement was published in 1988, before Germany was re-united, between the Church of England and the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).  A signing service followed in 1991 in Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2011\/09\/learn-the-lingo-says-bishop-of-bradford-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-meissen-agreement.aspx\">Read it all and see what you make of the podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should embrace other languages and cultures, particularly those of our European neighbours, says the Bishop of Bradford the Rt Revd Nick Baines in a Church of England podcast, published today, to celebrate 20 years of Anglo-German ecumenical links. Both<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28444\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,50,42,74,389,635,158,200,478,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ecumenical-relations","category-europe","category-germany","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}