Park Seong-won at the Uniting General Council, WCRC, Grand Rapids, 2010
Flourishing Life-Giving Oikos: - A faith Journey towards Cosmic Unity
“How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! (Psalm 133:1)
No other word than this beautiful praise comes to my mind as we congratulate and celebrate the coming together of the two worldwide Reformed families, forming one World Communion of Reformed Churches.
What kind of joy is it that we are enjoying and celebrating today? What sort of unity is it that we have achieved today? What type of life in unity should we live out today and tomorrow? What challenges are ahead of us in our ongoing journey of unity and justice?
Moving against the current: two global church networks merge
The world’s two largest networks of Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition are meeting in Grand Rapids in the northeastern United States June 18 - 26 to found a new organization signaling a new level of relationship between two families of churches once divided from each other.
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An Ecumenical Call from Hwacheon
FOR A WORLD OF PEACE: A WORLD FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
A group of persons active in the ecumenical movement from, Canada, Fiji, Korea, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines and the USA, committed to building a world of peace, a world free of nuclear weapons, came together from 4 to 6 December 2009, in Hwacheon, Republic of Korea, seeking ways to strengthen the ecumenical movement for urgent action on nuclear disarmament (possibly in cooperation with interfaith movements).
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In Chinese classic, there is a word saying "Be rich, you won't be humane (jen); be humane, you won't be rich."
If we rephrase this for a spiritual connotation, this word can be said as follows:
"Be rich, you won't be spiritual; be spiritual, you won't be rich."
This would mean that there would be a fundamental difficulty in connecting the state of being rich and the condition of being authentically humane, or being rich and being truly spiritual.
