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WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative 2022 Bible Studies: Solidarity Is Sacred, Bible Text: 1 Peter 4: 7–11

WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative 2022 Bible Studies: Human Dignity and Life Is Sacred, Bible Text: Genesis 1:26–27

WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative 2022 Bible Studies: Identity Is Sacred, Bible Text: Jeremiah 1:5

WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative 2022 Bible Studies: Family is Sacred, Bible Text: Psalm 133:1

WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative 2022 Bible Studies: Worship Is Sacred, Bible Text: Isaiah 56:7

WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative 2022 Bible Studies: Home Is Sacred, Bible Text: Isaiah 32:16–18

The third reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2022 of the WCC’s Ecumenical Water Network is written by Louk Andrianos.* He reflects on the  words of God found in James and John, by warning Christians about less recognized  “ecological sins" toward water: “pollution.” When our thirst is not quenched by Jesus Christ’s water and we follow the worldly consumption lifestyle, we act sometimes as springs of polluted water that are destroying creation instead of giving life to it. We cannot be the source of blessing and cursing (James 3: 10-11). 

The second reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2022 of the WCC’s Ecumenical Water Network is written by Nicole Ashwood (Nicqi).* In the following reflection , which was  written around the International Women’s Day, she reflects how the women in the story of Exodus were deprived of water and how Moses came up to their defense  and provided them and their flock with water. Then she  highlights how developed countries in Europe, including Switzerland fares in getting access to clean water and how it affects the health, wellbeing and dignity of the people, particularly, women, everywhere.

The first reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2022 of the WCC’s Ecumenical Water Network is written by Philip Vinod Peacock.* In the following reflection, he reflects on the promise of God found in Isaiah, that God will quench the thirst of the poor and will not forsake them. In the current global water crisis, he juxtaposes the poor against the rich in terms of their capacity to access  clean water. He challenges us to be enablers of God’s promise of water for the poor.

Part of a series of Bible studies in preparation for the WCC 11th Assembly, this ninth text was written by Rev. Fr Mesrop Parsamyan, director of ministries at the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America. 

Part of a series of Bible studies in preparation for the WCC 11th Assembly, this eighth text was written by Tamsyn Kereopa, a PhD candidate with the University of Otago, New Zealand.