Ecumenism

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. This quote was taken from an annual report delivered at the 11th convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia about a year before King was assassinated. These few words eloquently sum up a simple yet universal philosophy of choosing love over hate that the late Reverend King applied to nearly everything he did in his entire adult life. This philosophy of acting

INTRODUCTION The medieval theologian Julian of Norwich was a mystic, writer, anchoress and spiritual director for her time. She is gaining in popularity for our time as she provides a spiritual template for contemplative prayer and practice in her compilation of writings found in Revelations of Divine Love. The insightful meditations provide the backdrop and basis for her Trinitarian theology’s embrace of God’s Motherhood found in the Trinity. Her representative approach of the all-encompassing

The 2nd Vatican Council Starting with the First Council of Nicaea in 325 the Catholic Church established a tradition of ecumenical Council meetings to help decide on and shape the future of the Church. The most recent Council, called Vatican II, is considered to be both the largest ever in scope and also the most ground breaking in the amount of change it yielded. The changes in doctrine, dogma and procedure they enacted had major effects both inside and outside the Catholic Church and continue

“And when the other players showed off their cards in subsequent rounds, we had to lose a few rounds, before regaining the advantage,” the Godmother added. Harold and Margaret’s opponents, the RGA’s rivals, wielded cards such as: ‘Brotzmanskrieg’; ‘Plaid Prohibition’; ‘Equal Education Standards of Teaching and Curriculum’; ‘Schuljahr der Dampfwalze’; ‘Kekskrieg’; ‘Demonic Blitzkrieg’; ‘Betrayal and Corruption’; ‘March 21st Plot’; ‘Dweller Civil War’; ‘Haithabu Incident’; and the ‘Infamy of a Dead

CULTURE AND RELIGION The only way in which Christianity and other religions exist is in concrete, definite cultural environment. We receive, live, express and transmit our faith through culture. Culture is a reality which is difficult to define because it covers everything in human life. We can look at culture as the worldview guiding our lives. Such a worldview gradually developed from millions of agreement among members of our society through the long period of time. Our leaders have taken