{"id":5754,"date":"2022-10-05T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=5754"},"modified":"2023-11-13T19:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:47:31","slug":"15-dec-2022","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/events\/15-dec-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"(In Case You Missed It) The Ecumenical Winter is Over \u2014 Revd Dr Thomas F. BEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #363636;\"><strong>The CENTRO PRO UNIONE<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>invites you to the<\/em><br \/>\nTwenty-fifth Annual Conference in<br \/>\nHonor of the Servant of God Paul Wattson and Mother Lurana White<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>(In Case You Missed It)<br \/>\nThe Ecumenical Winter is Over<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #363636;\">Revd Dr Thomas F. BEST<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Pastor of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)<br \/>\nExecutive Secretary, Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (1984-2004)<br \/>\nand Director (2004-2007)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #363636;\">Thursday, 15 December 2022 &#8211; 6:00 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"far fa-edit\"><\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Book now your attendance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[dt_divider style=&#8221;thin&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #363636;\"> Revd Dr Thomas F. Best, a pastor of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), was seconded by his church to the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches in 1984, retiring as Director at the end of 2007. In addition to writing, producing and editing many Faith and Order and other texts, he is a former editor and book review editor of The Ecumenical Review (WCC) and Growth in Agreement III (WCC\/Eerdmans). <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In retirement he has edited Baptism Today (WCC\/Liturgical Press) and Growth in Agreeement IV (WCC) as well as contributing to the Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies, serving as President and Board Member of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, and co-teaching a course on the history of the ecumenical movement at Boston University. He is a currently a member of the International Dialogue between the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting a career-long commitment, he last spoke at the Centro Pro Unione in early 2017 on The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity as faithful witness \u2013 and challenge \u2013 to the ecumenical movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CENTRO PRO UNIONE invites you to the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference in Honor of the Servant of God Paul Wattson and Mother Lurana White (In Case You Missed It) The Ecumenical Winter is Over Revd Dr Thomas F. BEST Pastor of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Executive Secretary, Commission on Faith and Order of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[61],"mec_speaker":[149],"class_list":["post-5754","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-61","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"mec_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prounione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_speaker?post=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}