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“The Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace,” a conceptual framework for the future work of the World Council of Churches, receives critical elaboration and reflection in the latest issue of the WCC quarterly journal, The Ecumenical Review (ER).

According to a preface by ER editor Theodore Gill in the July 2014 issue, “guest editor Olav Fykse Tveit, the WCC general secretary since 2010, guides us in exploring aspects of pilgrimage. He supplies both the lead article for this issue… and a major lecture in the Ecumenical Chronicle in which he discusses the intersection of our journey with respect for religious liberty and a nation's laws.”

What is the essential meaning of a “pilgrimage of justice and peace”? What does this notion imply for Christian discipleship?  How are we to think of it theologically and biblically?  How does it relate to the perennial ecumenical agenda of unity?

The issue of ER gathers a dozen new articles from theologians, clergy, activists, and historians to explore the idea.  Among the contributors to the discussion are Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee; former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams; activist, author and journalist Jim Wallis;  as well as WCC associate general secretary Ioan Sauca.

List of the authors and articles

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