Today the World Council of Churches 10th Assembly was all about peace. Our general secretary Stan Noffsinger represented the peace churches in the plenary session. When he stood on the plenary stage with an Iranian Christian, as an American church leader, he bridged the divide between our two countries. The Iranian woman spoke of the
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The ins and outs
The ins and outs of how business is processed at this WCC Assembly bothers me. Inscrutable, sometimes inaccessible to the ordinary participant, often incoherent in both meanings of lacking coherence and lacking in communication. I woke up this morning realizing I have to write about this aspect of the assembly in order to be truthful,
Some invisible hand
When I got back from the “Pilgrimage of Peace” hosted by the Korean churches in the Seoul area, I downloaded the photographs from the weekend. Much to my surprise, on my camera were some pictures that I had not taken. The pictures were of our busload of WCC Assembly participants singing for the Ansan Jeil