{"id":70721,"date":"2016-11-09T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/our-common-calling-2\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:36:00","slug":"our-common-calling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/our-common-calling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Common Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first meeting of the Our Common Calling Group took place on 9 November . The group comprises members from the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Scotland, with a balance of clergy and laity from all parts of Scotland.<br \/>\nThe group will reflect on the churches&#8217; common calling within contemporary Scotland, and explore closer co-operation between the two churches as approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church; and will have a further meeting in early 2017.<br \/>\nThe Convener of the Scottish Episcopal Church\u2019s Inter-church Relations Committee and co-convener of the group, the Rev Canon John McLuckie says \u201cI feel greatly encouraged by the first meeting in this historic conversation between our two churches. We find ourselves in a rapidly changing context in Scotland and we have made a commitment to find new ways of responding together to that change. I look forward to our future work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>photo : Rev Dr John McPake (co-secretary Church of Scotland), Rev Alison McDonald (co-convener Church of Scotland); Rev Canon John McLuckie (co-convener Scottish Episcopal Church) and Elspeth Davey (co-secretary Scottish Episcopal Church)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; The first meeting of the Our Common Calling Group took place on 9 November . The group comprises members from the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Scotland, with a balance of clergy and laity from all parts of Scotland. The group will reflect on the churches&#8217; common calling within contemporary Scotland, and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}