{"id":62020,"date":"2017-07-31T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62020"},"modified":"2017-07-31T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:10:31","slug":"aj-anglican-church-in-ontario-rents-space-to-muslim-worshippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62020","title":{"rendered":"(AJ) Anglican church in Ontario rents space to Muslim worshippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Leamington, Ont., church is renting out space in its basement to local Muslims for use as a mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Since this spring, Muslim worship has been held in the basement of St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, diocese of Huron, says the church\u2019s rector, the Rev. Andrew Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement serves the church because it provides income to fund its ministry, he says; but it also an important part of the church\u2019s outreach to Leamington\u2019s growing refugee population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo one degree, it\u2019s as basic as a rental, but it is creating wonderful community for them\u2014they feel safe, they feel welcome,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/anglican-church-ontario-rents-space-muslim-worshippers\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Leamington, Ont., church is renting out space in its basement to local Muslims for use as a mosque. Since this spring, Muslim worship has been held in the basement of St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, diocese of Huron,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62020\">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":[388,332,426,183,659,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-canada-provinces-other-than-tec","category-islam","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62020","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=62020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62022,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62020\/revisions\/62022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}