{"id":99,"date":"2014-09-30T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2015-02-11T14:36:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T19:36:57","slug":"birth-of-the-church-of-north-india","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/birth-of-the-church-of-north-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of the Church of North India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment173\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/midst\/files\/2014\/10\/KS9dOGJaRf4kWsmBuAUwwPwnT9lVBt_yd0w12FoAU1o.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/midst\/files\/2014\/10\/KS9dOGJaRf4kWsmBuAUwwPwnT9lVBt_yd0w12FoAU1o.jpeg\" alt=\"Jim Alter and bishops, c. 1970, to work through church union\" class=\" wp-image-173 \" height=\"411\" width=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/files\/2014\/10\/KS9dOGJaRf4kWsmBuAUwwPwnT9lVBt_yd0w12FoAU1o.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/files\/2014\/10\/KS9dOGJaRf4kWsmBuAUwwPwnT9lVBt_yd0w12FoAU1o-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Alter and bishops, c. 1970, to work through church union<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barry and Jim left Rajpur for Old Delhi in 1969. The next year, they shifted to New Delhi.\u00a0 Part of their work was to help launch The Church of North India, an ecumenical body serving Christians in the northern provinces of India. Barry explains how leaders of a variety of denominations came to terms with the concept of \u201capostolic succession\u201d in the ordination of bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Church Union<br \/>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-99-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/midst\/files\/2014\/09\/BARRY_Church-Union.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/midst\/files\/2014\/09\/BARRY_Church-Union.mp3\">\/midst\/files\/2014\/09\/BARRY_Church-Union.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/podcast\/\">here<\/a> to download the podcast for this segment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/stories-by-theme\/\">back to Stories by Theme<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/abhishiktananda\/\" title=\"Abhishiktananda\">&lt; Previous Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/theology-3\/\" title=\"Theology\">Next Story &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\r\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\r\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\r\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');\r\n\r\n  ga('create', 'UA-56761359-1', 'auto');\r\n  ga('send', 'pageview');\r\n\r\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry and Jim left Rajpur for Old Delhi in 1969. The next year, they shifted to New Delhi.\u00a0 Part of their work was to help launch The Church of North India, an ecumenical body serving Christians in the northern provinces of India. Barry explains how leaders of a variety of denominations came to terms with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3242,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/midst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}