{"id":10808,"date":"2010-10-25T08:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=10808"},"modified":"2010-10-25T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:54:58","slug":"a-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2010\/10\/a-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"A milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Windhill Churches Centre in Bishop&#8217;s Stortford is being seen as a milestone in ecumenical relationships.<\/p>\n<p>It was built by the Anglican Parish of St Michael and the Roman Catholic Parish of St Joseph and the English Martyrs.<\/p>\n<p>The project has taken 15 years to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>The centre comprises two halls, two kitchens, two offices for clergy and six meeting rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance, toilets and lift for the disabled are all shared.<\/p>\n<p>It was opened on Saturday by the Rt Rev Dr Alan Smith, the Bishop of St Albans, and the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Westminster, the Rt Rev George Stack. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-11613035\">Article<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow we have come a long way.  Shared toilets! Though I guess when you are dealing with ecumenism it is best to emphasize what we share.<\/p>\n<p>I once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/10\/church-bulletin\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a church bulletin parody<\/a> for a joint Anglican\/Catholic church named &#8220;St. Thomas\u00a0More &amp; King Henry VIII&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windhill Churches Centre in Bishop&#8217;s Stortford is being seen as a milestone in ecumenical relationships. It was built by the Anglican Parish of St Michael and the Roman Catholic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10811,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions\/10811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}