What is your calling?
Interns from YWCA, YMCA, WSCF, ACT, WCC and LWF spent three days last week in an Internship Retreat in Louverain, Switzerland.
During the Retreat, One of the major focus for us was to reflect on the callings God has given to us.
Facing the beautiful snow mountains, the lake, along with the birds’ singing, I [...]
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I do make donations. By clicking on web sites. I’m fighting with hunger, supporting free child healthcare, I’m protecting rainforest. I’m saving the world in other words There is absolutely no charge for the donation - it is fully paid by the sponsor(s). It takes about 5 seconds. Not much effort. Last month I [...]
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Why write everything for yourself if somebody else has done it already? Since a few days, I wanted to write a reflection about the Taizé event in Geneva. In the meantime, three young people who were invited to attend the meeting on behalf of the World Council of Churches wrote a piece. You can read [...]
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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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Posted in Church, Enviroment, Faith, Justice, Life, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, Spirituality, UN, Youth, Youth participation on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday started the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. W Leaders come together to discuss how the governments can approach a new treaty to combat climate damaging pollution.
At the Lutheran World Federation, we discussed how we can talk about the climate change from a theological perspective. That is very necessary because it is [...]
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This morning, the chapel in the Ecumenical Center had unusual visitors. Every weekday morning, we gather here at 8.30 to have a short time of worship together. And people from many different organizations, Christian traditions and from all continents come. But today, there were 15 men in white robes sitting on the floor in the [...]
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Last week, the Global Christian Forum met for the first time on the global level in Nairobi, Kenya. It was quite an achievement. It brought together people from faith traditions who in many cases do not speak to each other: Roman Catholic and Pentecostal, Historic Protestant (like Lutherans) and Evangelical. I think it is not [...]
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A text by Thomas Kang from Brazil:
Twenty-five years ago, in the midst of political turbulences during the last years of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the National Council of Christian Churches (CONIC) was founded in 1982.
Nowadays, six churches are full members of CONIC: the Roman Catholic Church (Brazilian Conference of Bishops), the Christian [...]
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In Colombia, we as young people have a church group who leads other young people of the country, its called JLMC (Juventud Luterana Misionera de Colombia), something like Colombian Missionarie Lutheran Youth.
Many young people of this group are composed for profesional musicians who teaches other church groups about music. So in certain way they define the [...]
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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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