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Theme of this issue: " Where Two or
Three are Gathered in my Name"
The Year Ahead. Brief reflections by
ELCA Office for Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations
Director, Randall Lee |
 2006 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
- January 18-25 marks the 2006 Week of Prayer for Christian
Unity throughout the world. The theme is Matthew
18:15-22, "Where Two or Three are Gathered in My Name . . . "
Visit these links!
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 2006
National Workshop on Christian Unity, San José, California
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The workshop is sponsored by the
National Association of Ecumenical officers and will be held
from May 8-11, 2006. There are both denominational and
ecumenical sessions during the workshop.
Read more about this
national workshop, download the 2006 brochure and
registration!
If you are in a member of the
ELCA, and wish to attend luncheons at the NWCU, please fill
out the form and send it to our office by March 13,
2006. ECCO-EDEIO-LERN form
and LARC form |
 WCC
Assembly -The
9th
Assembly of the World Council of Churches will meet in Porto Alegre,
Brazil, 14 - 23 February 2006, addressing the theme "God, in
your grace, transform the world". This theme is a prayer
that speaks to many people in various ways; The Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek believes it communicates five important
messages...
Read
more
WCC invites churches in all places to
celebrate Assembly Sunday. An invitation to support
this assembly by praying on
Ecumenical Sunday, February 12, 2006. |
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 Joint
ELCA-UMC Resource - Confessing Our Faith Together: A
Discussion and Study Guide is designed so ELCA and UMC
congregations will meet and trace the joyful journey of
discovery that is at the heart of seeking Full Communion
between our churches. Download the study guide: Color
PDF | Black and White
PDF
Read more about the ELCA's bilateral dialogues with
other churches!
NEW
ELCA Synods and UMC Conferences engage in
Interim Eucharistic Sharing:
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On January
8, Bishop John Hopkins of the East Ohio Conference of The
United Methodist Church presided at the 11:00 AM liturgy
at First United Methodist Church in Cleveland.
Bishop Marcus Miller of the Northeastern Ohio Synod
preached. The service made the front page of Cleveland's
largest paper, The Plain Dealer.
- The Virginia Synod and Virginia
Conference of The United Methodist Church will celebrate a
joint Transfiguration service February 26, 5:00 PM, at Bon Air
United Methodist Church in Richmond, VA. Bishop Charlene
Kammerer of the VA United Methodist Conference will
preside at the Eucharist and Bishop James Mauney of the VA
Synod will be the preacher.
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The Southeastern, Northeastern and Western Iowa Synods and
the Iowa Conference of The United Methodist Church are
planning a joint service on May 11 at Bethesda Lutheran
Church in Ames, IA. Please, contact the
Southeastern Iowa Synod
for more information.
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2006 Ecumenical Seminary Essay Contest
on
Ecumenism for the 21st Century now underway. Lutheran Seminarians encouraged to submit an essay.
Download now:
Word DOC
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ELCA PowerPoint Presentation on Ecumenical Life -
From
grass-roots to seminaries and your local congregation -- 27
minutes long with discussion questions, pictures, and a
brief history of ecumenism in the ELCA. |
The Christian Handbook - Trying to
figure out what to bring to an ecumenical potluck?
Check out
The Christian Handbook, the lead title in a planned
series of user-friendly faith guides from Augsburg Fortress.
The Christian Handbook is a great resource to reach
ecumenical partners and people who are interested in
learning about Christianity beyond the Lutheran tradition. |
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- Seeking Unity and Understanding
 Take a look at the 2006 January
issue of The Lutheran to see the creative ways Lutheran and
Episcopalians come together in ministry six years after
ratifying Called to Common Mission. Read the
article:
Life Together. |
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The January-February issue of
Lutheran Women Today features an article, "Kitchen
Table Ecumenism" written by Phyllis Anderson, president
of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Highlighting the
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Anderson believes "This
ecumenical vision is realized whenever diverse believers
gather in Christ's name and dater to tell their truth and to
hear the truth of others. Jesus is there in the
midst of them, breathing his spirit into their separate
hearts, drawing them into his one body." |
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"Challenging Disparity: The Promise of God - The
Power of Solidarity" Ecumenical Advocacy
Days March 10-13, 2006 in Washington D.C. -
Seeking Peace and Justice. Over 900 people participated in
2005 with top speakers from throughout the world. |
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What is a
Conciliar Body? |
 Trinity
Institute: 36th National Theological
Conference:
"The anatomy of
reconciliation from violence to healing."
We've seen many social conflicts
reach a violent pitch in recent years. These
polarities breed violence - whether in the form of bullets
or of severed relationships. In this conference we will
explore freshly the meaning of reconciliation under today's
pressing circumstances.
Read more about this conference. |
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CCT - The next meeting
of Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A. will be March
28-31, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia. The program committee will
address the reality of poverty in the United States.
Read more and check who is going to attend this
meeting by clicking here
CCT participant. |
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 Ecumenical
Institute of Bossey
June 6-11, 2006
Registration Forms Are Here!!
Topic: "Mission as Proclamation of the Gospel -- Ecumenical
Perspectives." You can now download and print the
registration form and
apply directly to the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey. |
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The Ecumenical Church in a Globalized World - The Lutheran World Federation and the ELCA
office for Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations are
cooperating with ELCA seminaries on a seminary
January Term (J-Term) from January 7-24 in Geneva called:
The Ecumenical Church in a Globalized World. Click here for
pictures of the trip. Read the syllabus! |
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Pope Invites Methodists to Lutheran Pact - Pope
Benedict XVI encouraged Methodist leaders on Friday (Dec. 9)
to join a landmark 1999 agreement between Lutherans and the
Vatican that overcame centuries of disagreement on the
nature of salvation. In his first official meeting with
top-ranking officials of the World Methodist Council (WMC),
Benedict urged the council to endorse the Joint Declaration
on the Doctrine of Justification, a 1999 Catholic-Lutheran
accord on how humankind achieves salvation. |
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 "God
Is One": The Way of Islam by Marston Speight.
Co-sponsored by National Council of Churches, USA. Islamic
Society of North America and Hartford Seminary. The book
was reprinted following 9/11, with a study guide written by
Jack Rock. Upon the Initiative of Muslim leaders the three
sponsoring organizations have come together to encourage
churches throughout the United States to use this book and
it's study guide as an adults education/Sunday school
curriculum.
Read
more. |
 Religions
for Peace has published
Women of Faith Transforming Conflict: a Multi-Religious
Training Manual designed to support and strengthen
women of different faiths as they work to bring peace and
post-conflict reconstruction. |
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National Multi-religious College Councils Summit - Coming Together 2: Johns Hopkins University Campus Ministries
and the JHU Interfaith Council will host students who
represent their college or university multi-religious
councils in Baltimore from February 16-19, 2006.
Read more. |
 EYCE
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Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe
: A study session titled "Overcoming Islamophobia -
promoting inter-religious dialogue and co-operation" in the
European Youth Centre Strasbourg, France. Check this
link
for more information
and download the application. The session will be held on
March 19-29, 2006. |
ELCA Seminaries:
- LSTC
- The Rev. Dr. Mark Swanson will join the faculty at the
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago on July 1, 2006 as
professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith
Relations. Read the
news release.
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Luther - Luther
Seminary will host the third session of dialogue between
the ELCA and the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) March
26-27,2006.
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The
Institute of Interfaith Dialog - Inform yourself
about the major holidays of the world's great religions. |
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The LERN
network is comprised of ELCA clergy and laypeople
appointed by their synodical bishops throughout the ELCA to
conduct ecumenical activity on local and regional levels.
LERN reps. meet annually at the
National Workshop on Christian Unity and with staff
members of the ELCA Ecumenical and Inter-Religious
Relations. These representatives and the LERN Executive
Board meet the challenge of the ELCA’s
strategic directions to authentically “step forward as a
public church, support congregations, assist synods, produce
wise and courageous leaders, and deepen and extend our...
ecumenical relationships.”
LERN News & Events:
- LERN Executive Committee Meeting
February 5-7, 2006 at the ELCA churchwide offices in
Chicago.
- Read the LERNing
Newsletter!!
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2006
National Workshop on Christian Unity Registration Forms are
HERE
- May 8-11,
2006.
Read more about the
workshop. Download the
2006 Brochure and
Registration!
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NWCU LERN Luncheons - LERN representatives fill out
the ECCO-EDEIO-LERN form
or LARC form and send it
by March 13, 2006 to below address:
Ms. Paulina Nisbet-Dasse
Assistant to the Associate Director
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
8765 W. Higgins Rd
Chicago, IL 60631
1.800.638.3522 extension 2612
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- News & Events
- ELCA and the Lutheran Communion throughout the world!
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ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson responds to
remarks made by the President of Iran. Read the
news
release.
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 World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) -
International Theological Dialogue with the Orthodox Church.
NEW WARC
has launched a new mission project for 2006-10 designed as a
catalyst for mission reinterpretation, mission empowerment
and mission in unity in the Reformed family, in close
cooperation with the wider ecumene.
Click here for more information.
- Worldwide Faith News (WFN) -
is a database of full text official news releases and other
documents, including policy statements, from the news
offices of national and world faith groups. This collection
indexes more than 18,000 documents.
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World Jewish Congress
- See recent news
releases from Ecumenical News International
(ENI).
- See recent news releases from the
World Council of Churches.
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NEW The
Associations of Christian Higher Education elected new
officers for the next 3-5 year period at the third
International Forum of Associations of Christian Higher
Education in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 22-26. They are:
Chairs: Victor Jose Ferreira (Brazil), Arne Selbyg
(USA), and Guy Real Thivierge (France).
Vice Chairs: Nicole de Marie Dabalus (Phillipines),
Rudolf Ficker (Germany), and Richard Yanikoski (USA).
Secretary General: Mani Jacob (India).
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