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Reflection "Local
and Global: Understanding, Unity and Mission" by The Rev. Dr. Donald J.
McCoid,
Executive for Ecumenical and Inter-Religious
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What's the difference? Martin E. Marty's
impression of ELCA Full Communion Relationships.
Unity and diversity on the inside...the ELCA has reached
"full communion" with five church bodies and is conversing
with more.
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National Workshop on Christian Unity (NWCU)
Theme: Equipping Church Leaders in the
Quest for Christian Unity - April 14 - 17, 2008. Pray without Ceasing
Read more...
The Fourth Annual Seminary Essay Contest
on Ecumenism for the
21st Century. The National Workshop on Christian Unity is pleased to
announce a coordinated essay contest to encourage students
to engage contemporary ecumenical issues.
Learn about the
Essay Contest for theological students held in
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NEW An
open letter and call from Muslim Religious Leaders
In an unprecedented historical move,
138 moderate Muslim leaders throughout the world wrote to
global Christian leaders, including President Mark Hanson of
the Lutheran World Federation. Muslims and Christians together make
up well over half of the world’s population.
The letter claims that without peace and justice between
these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world.
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 Joint
ELCA-UMC Resource –
Confessing Our Faith Together: A Discussion and Study
Guide is designed so that the ELCA and UMC congregations
learn about Full Communion between our churches.
Please fill out the evaluation form and send it to us!
Download the ELCA study guide Confessing our Faith Together
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Read more about the ELCA's bilateral dialogues with other
churches!
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Lutherans and a Non-Violent World
Lutherans Train to "Live Faithfully in a Violent World"
-Chicago (ELCA) -- Peace and
justice-minded Lutherans working to end violence will gather
Nov. 16-17 for "Living Faithfully in a Violent World:
Congregations and Community Working Together to End
Violence," a training event hosted by the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and ELCA Metropolitan
Chicago Synod.
Read more...
for Registration
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A World of Religion in the
21st Century
The Economist on Religion - The noted British
publication, The Economist, has issued a
remarkable series of articles on the intersection of
religion and public life. The challenges and joys of
inter-religious engagement in the twenty-first
century comprise our shared futures as Christians
and people of faith.
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 NEW
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Book of Faith
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Open Scripture Join the Conversation
The
Book of Faith is an initiative of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America. The initiative invites the
whole church to become more fluent in the language of Scripture in order that we might
live into our calling as a people renewed, enlivened, and
empowered by the Word. |
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ELCA -
2008
Leadership Events- January 31-February 3, 2008
The Duncan
Center -- Delray Beach, Florida
These conferences are for those
pastors called to lead a ministry staff, others in
congregational positions (assistant or
associate pastors, associates in ministry,
diaconal ministers, deaconesses, other
lay staff), and for those who have moved within
the last year to a new parish or
position. |
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 National Council of Churches USA
General Assembly opens this week in NJ and NYC
More than 200 delegates from 35
Christian communions met near and in New York City.
The theme: "Journeys: For We Walk By
Faith..." was taken from the New Testament book of 2nd
Corinthians 5:7.
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 Churches
United In Christ -
January 11-14, 2008, St. Louis,
MO
CUIC Plenary :
"Seeking to
Be God's Beloved Community" Churches United
in Christ is hosting this plenary in order to assess the
future of this particular conciliar body. Ten heads of
churches (communions) will be present at the meeting.
Seven delegates from each church -- including the ELCA --
will attend.
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NEW -
Church Divinity School of the Pacific-
January 28 - February 1, 2008
Epiphany
West Anglican Learning and Leadership Conference
- Each year the Episcopal Church offers courses to
strengthen hearts, minds, and imaginations of all baptized
Christians. A wide range of online and onsite classes
is offered to meet the needs of congregations, dioceses, and
individual laity and clergy across the country.
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 Churches for Middle East Peace is working in multiple ways to
generate Congressional and public support for the international
meeting on Israeli-Palestinian peace that is planned for
Annapolis this fall. On October 15, CMEP Board members signed a
letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Read more...
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World Council of Churches calls for Global Forum
Most diverse Christian gathering
- The November 2007 forum near
Nairobi, Kenya gathered some 250 Christians from Roman
Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, Revival,
Evangelical, Pentecostal and African Independent church
backgrounds. While the WCC supports this platform for
Christian dialogue and is sending a delegation to Nairobi,
the forum itself is autonomous in nature. ELCA Bishop
Jessica Crist traveled to Nairobi as a representative on behalf
of this church.
Pathways to Peace - New York, USA - On October 4-5 the
UN General Assembly President organized a High Level Dialogue on
Inter-Religious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation
for Peace. Theme - "Pathways to Peace: Religious
Perspectives on Solving Global Problems."
World Council of Churches -
Stewards
Programme Steward Application Form
World Council of
Churches -Internship
Programme 2008-2009 |
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 Lutheran World
Federation
4th
Annual Seminary January Term on Global Ecumenism
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Trinity Institute National Theological Conference - January 21-23, 2008
A panel of prominent Christian,
Jewish, and Muslim theologians will explore the deeply
rooted, seemingly inexorable union of religion and violence,
illuminating the resources within each tradition for living
together in peace, without losing the unique identities of
each faith. |
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 lnter-Religious
Resource:
Windows for Understanding: Jewish, Muslim, Lutheran
Relations
This resource offers
opportunities to learn more and become better informed. You
are invited to explore Windows and grow in your
faith. We encourage you to send us your comments and
suggestions by filling out the Evaluation Form on back of
Windows.
NEW
A new annotated
interfaith film and DVD bibliography
Additional
Inter-Religious
Links:
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 International Council
of Christians and Jews
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Conference
in Sydney, Australia, July 8-11, 2007.
Theme: "Healing a
Broken Earth: the
faiths working together"
Follow the
Blog of a U.S. attendee. |
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The LERN
network is a group of ELCA clergy and laypeople
appointed by their synodical bishops throughout the ELCA.
They are the eyes and ears of ecumenism in their synods.
LERN reps meet annually at the
National Workshop on Christian Unity and with staff
members of the ELCA Ecumenical and Inter-Religious
Relations Office. These representatives and the LERN
Executive Committee 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.”
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 Violence
and Christian Spirituality- An Ecumenical Conversation
What is the
relationship of our Christian faith to the violence we see
in the world? How
do we respond to violence in a manner that is rooted
in our faith and
our relationship to God? In this relationship with a God
of peace and
justice, how do we experience peace and justice in our own
lives and labour
so that they may be realized in the lives of others, in our
communities, and
in our world? These are some of the questions
addressed by a
number of theologians and laypeople from different
Christian
traditions. |
 Interfaith
Encounters In America
From its most cosmopolitan
urban centers to the rural Midwest, the
United States is
experiencing a rising tide of religious interest. While
terrorist attacks keep Americans fixed on an abhorrent
vision of militant
Islam, popular films such as The Passion
of the Christ and The Da Vinci
Code make blockbuster
material of the origins of Christianity.
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 A Place at the Multicultural Table
In A Place at the Multicultural
Table, Prema A. Kurien shows how
various Hindu American
organization-religious, cultural, and political-are
attempting to
answer the puzzling questions of identity outside of their
homeland. Drawing
on the experiences of both immigrant and
American- born
Hindu Americans. |
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Cardinal Bea
Center for Judaic Studies Launches New Newsletter –
Read
HERE
Ecumenical News
International
(ENI)
Journal of Lutheran Ethics
Inter-Religious Organizations, Resources,
and Links
www.lutherlink.org
is one of many religious networks joined in Ecunet, the
world's longest-running ecumenical online community. You can
sign up here or call
800/733-2863.
http://www.beliefnet.com
http://www.religionwriters.com
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/current/headlines.html
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/
http://meaningoflife.tv/
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news/news.shtml
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