Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Faith, Latin America/Carribean, Life, North America, Youth, Youth participation on July 31, 2007 | No Comments »
My colleague Simone Sinn attended a four-week-long interfaith seminar in the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, close to Geneva. Simone is a young pastor from Germany and she works for the Department for theology and studies of the Lutheran World Federation. I thought it is really exciting if young people from many countries and faith traditions [...]
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Thomas Kang wrote a little piece about his involvement in a commission of the World Council of Churches. I think it is very interesting to get more stories how young people can participate in the Church. So if you have other stories about that, send them to me: It does not matter whether it is [...]
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Posted in Faith, Life on July 30, 2007 | No Comments »
In three days I will be home again in the states. My six month long trip has come down to this. It will be good to be home. As everything comes to a close, I’ve started to think of things I’ve learned while travelling. I think the biggest thing is that when you travel, meet other [...]
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Posted in Faith, Life on July 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I don’t know how many copies of the 7th and final volume of the Harry Potter series have been sold by now. I only know: I was one of them. And I read it already. Late on Sunday night, one day after the release, I finished the 600-page long book.
And I liked it. It was [...]
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Posted in Life on July 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Every four years the YWCA has an International Women’s Summit, where they share information and vote. I recently returned from this meeting in Nairobi, where I met many young women. The YWCA has a commitment to 25% of its delegations under 30 years old, and they have recently amended their constitution to require that 50% [...]
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I just returned from a three-week trip to Kenya and Rwanda. I had planned to blog throughout, but its not easy getting an internet connection. I visited Lutheran churches in Kenya, went to the YWCA International Women’s Summit in Nairobi, and helped the Lutheran Church of Rwanda plan a youth [...]
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For a few days, I had an email discussion with Ewa Issel, an Polish university student. She is very active in the Lutheran Church in Poland and was steward at the last meeting of the LWF council in Lund.
She is now heading off to a children’s and youth camp in the Southern Poland. The unusual [...]
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It is a special experience to be at an international Ecumenical Meeting. There are many different people with different cultural understanding. The worship services bear the spirit of the ecumenical community. One gets to know about why are issues controversial even though the solution seems so easy.
The next Steward’s program of the LWF is going [...]
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Since 1986 killing whales was forbidden, since then still 25000 have been killed. Some countries doesnt want to stop killing them claiming cientific reasons. Some others die as victims of collisions with big ships, trauma, starvation. The truth is that they are disappearing, and soon our children will met them [...]
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I got back home a few days ago from the second orhtodox Youth Conference in Istanbul. I was a delegate of the LWF there.
The whole week was very interesting and inspiring. Listening to the internal depate of the Church made me understand better orthodox people and way of life. To many participants, my role in [...]
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