{"id":3221,"date":"2020-02-04T20:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:00:34","slug":"reconciliation-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/reconciliation-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconciliation Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Churches across the UK will this weekend be singing a new praise song that \u201caims to build unity in our church and our nation post-Brexit\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Britain having left the European Union at 11pm yesterday, the singer-songwriter Andy Flanagan said that his song\u00a0<em>Reconciled (for Brexit and Beyond)<\/em>\u00a0would apply some balm to church communities left bitterly divided by the government\u2019s protracted attempt to carry out the result of the in\/out referendum in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flanagan, who is also a director of Christians in Politics, helped to organise Brexit debates in Anglican, other Protestant and Catholic churches in 2019, but was shocked by some of the bitter arguments that ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trial.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churches across the UK will this weekend be singing a new praise song that \u201caims to build unity in our church and our nation post-Brexit\u201d. With Britain having left the European Union at 11pm yesterday, the singer-songwriter Andy Flanagan said that his song\u00a0Reconciled (for Brexit and Beyond)\u00a0would apply some balm to church communities left bitterly divided by the government\u2019s protracted attempt to carry out the result of the in\/out referendum in 2016. Flanagan, who is also a director of Christians in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-magazine","category-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}