{"id":39873,"date":"2013-09-03T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_england_and_the_methodist_church_moving_closer_to_unity\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T16:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:00:32","slug":"church_of_england_and_the_methodist_church_moving_closer_to_unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39873","title":{"rendered":"Church of England and the Methodist Church moving closer to unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Implementation Commission (JIC) of the Church of England and Methodist Church in Britain has called for &#8220;Church leaders and decision-making bodies to make the Covenant a priority in order to bring our Churches closer together in mission and holiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a major Report published this week the JIC calls on both Churches to consider the impact that the 10-year-old Anglican Methodist Covenant has made on their relationship; to rejoice in the progress that has been made; and to face together the challenges of mission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2013\/09\/church-of-england-and-the-methodist-church-moving-closer-to-unity.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Implementation Commission (JIC) of the Church of England and Methodist Church in Britain has called for &#8220;Church leaders and decision-making bodies to make the Covenant a priority in order to bring our Churches closer together in mission and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39873\">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":[36,42,74,389,158,360,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecumenical-relations","category-methodist","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39873","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=39873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}