{"id":48280,"date":"2015-02-07T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/united_methodists_and_episcopalians_mark_waystation_to_full_communion\/"},"modified":"2015-02-07T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:54:08","slug":"united_methodists_and_episcopalians_mark_waystation_to_full_communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48280","title":{"rendered":"United Methodists and Episcopalians Mark \u201cWaystation\u201d\u009d to Full Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from the United Methodist Church and Episcopal Church have joined together at the Washington National Cathedral to mark an agreement bringing the two oldline Protestant denominations closer together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday as Episcopalians and United Methodists, we remember who we are kin too. We celebrate our family tree and our common roots in the Lord Jesus Christ,\u201d\u009d proclaimed the Rev. Dr. Kim Cape, General Secretary of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Cape gave the January 25 sermon at the Episcopal cathedral, declaring the day \u201chistoric\u201d\u009d and that the two communities were acting \u201cto mend a long division.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2015\/02\/06\/united-methodists-episcopalians-mark-waystation-full-communion\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from the United Methodist Church and Episcopal Church have joined together at the Washington National Cathedral to mark an agreement bringing the two oldline Protestant denominations closer together. \u201cToday as Episcopalians and United Methodists, we remember who we are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48280\">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":[36,42,158,66,360,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecumenical-relations","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-methodist","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48280","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=48280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}