Feature stories Jewish-Christian dialogue: a demanding miracle
Given the history of their relationships, interreligious dialogue between Christians and Jews may be seen as a "miracle", but it's also a complex and demanding endeavour.
"Children from different religions can pray together in school"
How to teach religion in multifaith contexts is a growing concern for churches and religious communities everywhere. This interview with a Christian educator from India presents a specific experience emerging from a multireligious context in Asia.
Minorities and dialogue: a sense of shared vulnerability
What does it mean to be a religious minority with a different faith to that of the majority of people around you? What is the importance of interreligious dialogue in situations of vulnerability? Is interreligious dialogue an adequate response to a critical moment in the world?
Jihad or crusade? Resolving Christian?Muslim tensions
From Baghdad to Bosnia, media images in recent years have reinforced prophecies of a conflict of civilizations emerging along religious faultlines. References to both jihad and crusade have reappeared in public discourse, and in some societies particular faith groups are regarded with suspicion. It can sometimes seem as though Christians and Muslims are condemned to collide.
Faith, religion, modernity: a critical moment
The tranquillity of Lake Geneva belies the sense of growing urgency within the nearby Ecumenical Centre, headquarters of the World Council of Churches. This urgency is shared by a broad group of religious leaders, academic specialists and grassroots activists from virtually all the major world faith communities. They have come from around the world to reflect on a "critical moment" in interreligious dialogue.
Michael Kinnamon welcomes, reflects on, expanded participation in mission conference
"An ecumenical movement that doesn't involve conversations between people who disagree would not be an ecumenical movement," says Michael Kinnamon in the following interview given at the 9-16 May 2005 Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME).
Pentecostals participate in expanded World Mission Conference
Dialogue between Pentecostals and others active in the ecumenical movement is still in an early stage of development as the constellation of participants expands.
Living in community amidst diversity
Women in brightly coloured saris eat breakfast with bearded men in flowing black robes. Lutherans compare ideas with Catholics. Orthodox exchange greetings of peace with Evangelicals. Participants in the Athens World Mission Conference have experienced the formation of a peaceful and accepting community.
Women challenge churches to redefine mission
The mission of women is often very ordinary. It happens every day, sometimes in very quiet ways.
Receiving the Holy Spirit from one another
A leading Vatican official affirms that Catholics are "in the ecumenical movement" to find answers to questions of Christian unity, recognizing the World Council of Churches as "an essential partner".