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Of Rolling Waters and Roaring Winds A celebration of the woman song Lynda Katsuno and Edna Orteza, eds An enduring legacy of the Ecumenical Decade - Churches in Solidarity with Women (1988-1998) is the rich treasury of new liturgical, spiritual and artistic resources which it has generated. Through prayers, meditations, poems and reflections, women around the world, living in different social and cultural contexts and drawing on diverse church traditions, have shared their longing for a new community in Christ. They have spoken of their sorrow and pain - "these wounds have driven me to write down my thoughts on all things," says a 14-year-old Bosnian refugee in one of the contributions to this book - but have also celebrated their joys and hopes. This new collection of these creative expressions, largely taken from Decade-related events and publications, is an ideal resource for individual meditation, group reflection and the preparation of ecumenical worship services. Included are a series of meditations for Holy Week and some twenty songs of prayer and praise. Available from WCC Publications for Sfr. 25.00, US$ 16.50, £9.95. ISBN 2-8254-1287-2
Finding a Voice
The unexpected and untimely death of Marlin VanElderen on Pentecost Monday of 2000 has provoked a flood of messages of sympathy from all parts of the worldwide ecumenical community. For nearly twenty years he had been on the staff of the World Council of Churches. When he first came to the WCC he was already an accomplished editor with Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. in Grand Rapids, USA.
For more than half of the twenty years’ existence of the prize-winning WCC magazine One World, Marlin VanElderen served as its editor. Particularly through his thought-provoking and incisive editorials he succeeded in making One World a widely appreciated source of information and reflection about the ecumenical movement.
This book is a selection of these editorials. Timely, rooted in biblical faith, they tell and interpret the story of the complexity of unity in the widest sense of the word.
Available from WCC Publications for approx. Sfr. 13.50, US$ 8.95, £5.70. ISBN 2-8254-1335-6, Risk Book Series co-published with Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, USA.
Facing AIDS - The Challenge, the Churches' Response
This WCC study document is the fruit of two years of intensive consultation by an international group of pastors, theologians and ethicists, scientists, doctors and nurses, persons living with AIDS and persons working with those touched by it. Successive chapters focus on the scientifics facts and social, economic and cultural context; theological perspectives; ethical and medical-ethical issues; human rights and responsibilities; and pastoral care by the church as healing community.
Available from WCC Publications, 2nd printing, Sfr.15.00, US$9.95, £6.50, ISBN 2-8254-1213-9
Development Dialogue 1999:1-2 (published in cooperation with RAFI) The ETC Century. Erosion, Technological Transformation and Corporate Concentration in the 21st Century by Pat Roy Mooney Development Dialogue is intended to provide a free forum for critical discussion of development priorities and problems facing the 21st century, international development cooperation in general and multilateralism in particular. Development Dialogue is addressed to politicians and administrators in both third world and industrialised countries, to officials in international organisations, and to members of civil society organisations as well as to representatives of the media and the research community.
Development Dialogue is published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in two issues per year. Copies may be obtained from the Dag Hammarskjöld Centre, Övre Slottsgatan 2, SE-753 10 Uppsala, Sweden, Fax: +46-18-122 072
The Persistence and Mutation of Racism
In one form or another racism is to be found in every society on earth. It is associated with certain forms of entrenched poverty and certain kinds of extreme violence. It is a denial of human relationship. Yet, for many people it remains almost invisible, unnoticed except when violence is involved. Those who do not experience it often fail to understand how profoundly offensive it is. As preparations are made for the United Nations World Conference on Racism and Xenophobia in 2001, this short report surveys some of the main issues that preoccupy people who suffer from racism or who study its effects.
This document is published in English, Spanish and French and can be ordered from The International Council on Human Rights Policy, PO Box 147, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland, Tel: +41-22-775 3300, Fax: +41-22-775 3303, Email: ichrp@international-council.org, Web.
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Inside Out is the bi-monthly magazine of the Council for World Mission (CWM), a community of Protestant churches world-wide whose origin goes back to the London Missionary Society in 1795.
The magazine tackles issues at the forefront of mission and includes personal testimonies of faith, news from CWM churches and missionaries, prayers, and insights on world Christianity.
For a year’s free subscription, contact Nina Orchard, Council For World Mission, Ipalo House, 32-34 Great Peter St., London, SW1P 2DB. Tel +44 (0)20 7227 4214 or email.
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