Park Seong-won at the Uniting General Council, WCRC, Grand Rapids, 2010
The Chiang Mai Declaration
AGAPE Consultation on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology in Asia and the Pacific
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2-6 November 2009
WCC-CCA-PCC
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AGAPE consultation on Poverty, Wealth, and Ecology
“Be rich, you won’t be humane. Be humane, you won’t be rich.”
“When you unite wealth, you divide people. When you divide wealth, you united the people.”
Drawing insightful learning from the deep wells of Asian traditional wisdom, Prof. Park Seong-Won spoke at the AGAPE consultation on Poverty, Wealth, and Ecology in Asia and the Pacific which was held in Chiangmai, Thailand, from 2 to 6 November 2009.
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Korea stands ready to welcome WCC 10th Assembly
A beachfront location, an opportunity to be a witness for peace and reconciliation, and a commitment to engage the breadth of the region’s church community as widely as possible: these are among the features those attending the World Council of Churches’ 10th Assembly in Busan, South Korea can expect.
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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.
