{"id":23459,"date":"2015-10-27T23:44:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23459"},"modified":"2015-10-28T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:33:56","slug":"anglican-and-united-churches-to-pool-their-ineffectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-and-united-churches-to-pool-their-ineffectiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"United Church of Christ and Canada to pool their ineffectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there will be a great deal of <em>living into <\/em>things; always a bad sign.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecumenicalnews.com\/article\/united-church-of-canada-and-united-church-of-christ-formalize-full-communion-35155\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United Church of Christ and The United Church of Canada have both formalized a full communion agreement in a worship service at St. Andrew&#8217;s United Church, Niagara Falls, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Through the agreement, the U.S. and Canadian-based churches, both members of the World Council of Churches, agreed to &#8220;commit to living into a common vision of ministry and mission together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 17 they &#8220;committed to exploring the possibilities of this full communion relationship, and to finding ways of living into deeper, fuller expressions of witness that will strengthen the Church as we learn and grow together.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The important similarities between the two denominations are that they have both displaced the Gospel with obsessive social action, same sex-marriage, gender confusion and an openness so vast that all meaning has dissipated. A marriage of convenience, made in hell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are similarities between the two churches in their commitment to social justice and commitment to inclusion of diversity in sexual and gender identities, in disabilities, in theological openness and expression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there will be a great deal of living into things; always a bad sign. From here: The United Church of Christ and The United Church of Canada have both formalized a full communion agreement in a worship service at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-and-united-churches-to-pool-their-ineffectiveness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,1588],"class_list":["post-23459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-united-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}