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When COVID-19 brought its dark cloud of sickness, fear, and anxiety to his corner of the UK, Rev. Harvey Richardson decided to embrace his friends with the light of prayer.

Over 100 people including students, alumni, instructors, and guests from academic and theological institutions in Germany, Switzerland, and France gathered together to hear reflections as part of the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI) program culmination on 7 September during the World Council of Churches 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe.

"God made me inquisitive by nature,” said Tavis Tinsley, 27, a graduate student from the United States and theologian from the United Methodist Church.

“The audacity to love as Christ loves,” said the Rt. Rev. Joy Evelyn Abdul-Mohan, is “an imperative, not an option” for churches in today’s world. “When we have our agenda inclusive of all, for the benefit of all, then the cooperation and the commitment of all will be assured, and Christ’s audacious love will become more real to us.”

Lorsque deux ou trois Chrétiennes et Chrétiens se retrouvent, c’est généralement au culte ou autour d’un repas fraternel. Mais lorsque plusieurs milliers de Chrétiennes et Chrétiens se rassemblent en un même endroit, il ne peut être question que d’une étude biblique.

Where two or three Christians are gathered, you will most likely find them in worship or enjoying fellowship over food. Gather a few thousand Christians in one place, and you will definitely find them engaged in a Bible study.

Karlsruhe, une ville bâtie il y a plus de 300 ans, sans murs d’enceinte, ouverte aux ami-e-s et aux invité-e-s, à une époque où d’autres villes se cachaient encore derrière leurs fortifications, a accueilli des personnes venues du monde entier pour prendre part à quatre pré-assemblées qui ont envoyé des messages forts à la 11^e Assemblée du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE).

Karlsruhe, a city built over 300 hundred years ago without walls, open to friends and guests —at a time where other cities still hid behind their fortifications —welcomed people from all over the world to four pre-assemblies that are bringing forward powerful calls to the 11^th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC).