Bishop Schwerin's Reflections on General Conference 2024
Bishop Dan Schwerin offers some reflections after listening to how news of The United Methodist General Conference is being received in Northern Illinois.
The NIC Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Relationships (CCUIR - 2012 Discipline ¶ 642) is committed to seeing that our relationships with other churches and other faiths reflect God’s love that embraces All people into knowing themselves as a household at God’s table.
Dr. Martin Luther King drew on the Biblical Greek word oikos, meaning “house,” to say. “We have inherited a big house, a great world house [oikoumene] in which we have to live together- black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family unduly separated . . . in ideas, culture, and interests who . . . must learn, somehow, in this one big world, to live with each other. This means that more and more our loyalties must become ecumenical [oikoumene].”
Contacts:
NIC CCUIR Chairperson: Rev. Lynn Pries 630.697.1942 lynnlpries@gmail.com
NIC Ecumenical/Interreligious Office Liaison: Rev. Catiana McKay 630.935.3312 catiana.mckay@gmail.com
Conference Ecumenical/Interreligious Web Information: Rev. Edgar Hiestand 708.660.9168 ehiest@gmail.com
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