Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Europe, LWF, Latin America/Carribean, Middle East, North America, Youth, Youth participation on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The Lutheran World Federation is about community. People from all over the world who belong to a host of churches on all continents say: We belong together. I care what happens to sister or brother in a far away country. We are connected in Jesus Christ.
That is really not a new idea. Christians from the [...]
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Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America/Carribean, Middle East, North America, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, UN, Youth, Youth participation on April 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Francis and I went to the Presentation of the World Youth Report 2007. For the main website of LWF (www.lutheranworld.org) I put together a formal report. Here is it:
“There has never been a generation that was more likely to volunteer and be involved in community causes than this one,” said Patience W. Stephens, the [...]
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Posted in Life, North America on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Presidential election fever has hit the United States. Record numbers of people are coming out to vote in the primary election (in the US, we have two elections- a primary, where people of the same party run against each other to see who will represent that party, and a general election, where the winners of [...]
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This year, March 7-10th, over a thousand Christians are expected to gather in Washington D.C. to be advocates for justice and peace in the annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days conference.
The event, part on the movement of the Ecumenical Christan Community, included over 200 youth last year, and more are expected this year. Participants will be inspired by different [...]
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Searching the Internet for a completly different thing I discovered a very interesting post. Peter Kline - a young theologian working in a Lutheran congregation in the USA without being Lutheran himself - speaks about why it still makes sense to study Martin Luther.
He is talking very much from within the US American culture. But [...]
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The ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), like most mainline protestant denominations here in the USA, does not have a large percentage of Young Adults present for worship on Sundays- and the numbers seem to be declining.
There is no simple answer to why this is, because there are probably a lot of reasons. One of [...]
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Kristen Glass, director for young adult ministries, reflects about the church wide assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the role of young adults in it. She allowed us to re-publish a text that she has written for her own blog:
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This summer, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (member of the LWF) had its churchwide assembly. That is the highest decision making body of the church and brings together more than 1000 voting members from all parts of the church. Often, it is not easy for youth and young adults to engage in such an [...]
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This is US focused - but the world is currently watching how young people are using new technologies, and broad claims are being made all the time. I think how young people use the news also tells us how young people participate in democracy… Do others find the same claims to be [...]
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Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Faith, Latin America/Carribean, Life, Middle East, North America, Youth, Youth participation on August 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Simone posted about her experiences at the Interfaith Seminar in Bossey. Here is how she reflected on these experiences:
“Interfaith encounter should not be something exceptional today. Most of our societies are plural and people of different faiths live close to one another. Some of us study with people of other faiths, live with them [...]
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