Podcasts about Lutheran World Federation

‘Us Australians are a generous bunch, often willing to support an important cause that might bring hope in a time of need. But when it comes to financial giving, we don't always get to hear the impact that our donations really have.' Ever wondered what really happens with humanitarian aid overseas? Listen as Sophie Gebreyes, from Lutheran World Federation, shares about Ethiopia's country program and how generous Australians are making a world of difference in the lives of people in struggling communities. The post Carrying Hope appeared first on Messages of hope.

Michael Lofton examines the case of the Lutheran World Federation and some Orthodox Churches signing off a joint statement concerning the filioque.

TRADCAST EXPRESS - Episode 194 Topics covered: Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith charges 'Abp.' Carlo Maria Vigano with schism, but what does that mean in light of Vatican II ecclesiology? Francis on the 'hyper-ecumenical' day of the Last Judgment. Links: "Vatican Puts ‘Archbishop' Carlo Maria Vigano on Trial for Schism", Novus Ordo Wire (June 20, 2024) "Viganò lets it rip: Former Vatican Nuncio publishes scathing Condemnation of Vatican II Religion", Novus Ordo Wire (June 14, 2020) "Dangerous Heresy in attractive Wrapping Paper: Abp.  Viganò's Letter to President Trump", Novus Ordo Wire (June 8, 2020) "Abp. Carlo Viganò and Taylor Marshall participate in Ecumenical Prayer Rally with Protestants and Jews", Novus Ordo Wire (Dec. 15, 2020) "Francis to Russian Orthodox Patriarch: 'We are Shepherds of the Same Holy Flock of God'", Novus Ordo Wire (May 6, 2022) "Faithless Francis: Heretics and Apostates are Part of the Church, 'We Are Brothers'", Novus Ordo Watch (Feb. 2, 2022) "Vatican II's New Doctrine on the Church", Novus Ordo Wire (Aug. 23, 2016) Antipope Francis, Address to Delegates of the Lutheran World Federation, Vatican.va (June 20, 2024) "The Sense and Scope of Schism: A Pre-Vatican II Canonist Speaks", Novus Ordo Watch (June 22, 2024) Denzinger: The Sources of Catholic Dogma (1954 ed.) Sign up to be notified of new episode releases automatically at tradcast.org. Produced by NOVUSORDOWATCH.org Support us by making a tax-deductible contribution at NovusOrdoWatch.org/donate/

What is the Lutheran World Federation, and how do they differ theologically from the LCMS and our partner churches today? Rev. Dr. Jonathan Shaw, LCMS Church Relations Director, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about ecumenism and how Lutherans have historically approached it, how and why the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) began, what was accomplished through the collaborative efforts of churches in the LWF, and how the LWF differs theologically from the LCMS and our partner churches today. Download and read Dr. Shaw's paper at resources.lcms.org/reading-study/church-relations-the-lutheran-world-federation-today.

Dr. Jonathan Shaw, Director of Church Relations for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod The Lutheran World Federation Today The post 1444. The Lutheran World Federation, Past and Present – Dr. Jonathan Shaw, 5/23/24 first appeared on Issues, Etc..

The brand-newest of any theological writing Dad and I have ever covered on the podcast! We discuss "The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me," the recently released statement of the International Lutheran-Pentecostal Dialogue, following discussions that took place from 2016 to 2022. Full disclosure: Sarah worked as a consultant to the dialogue on behalf of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, an independent house of studies that delegates consultants to all the ecumenical dialogues of the Lutheran World Federation. Besides Sarah's offering of some insider illumination on the text, the two of us discuss what an ecumenical statement is, what it isn't, and how it can become fruitful across the church. Notes: 1. "The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me" 2. The Institute for Ecumenical Research 3. The Lutheran World Federation and Pentecostal World Fellowship 4. Related episodes: Making Ecumenism Sexy Again, Nenilava, Theology and Experience 1, Theology and Experience 2 What do you think five years of top-quality theology podcasting is worth? Register your vote by joining our highly select band of Patrons. Get some cool swag and support your favorite podcast in remaining stridently independent and advertising-free!

Wiebke Zimmermann talks with Isabella Reimann Gnas. She is a newly elected Council member of the Lutheran World Federation and the Vice President of the LWF region Latin America and Caribbean. They speak about the election, topics for the term of office, and Isabella's youth leadership in her home church, the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil.

Rebecca Treimer talks with Marta Zachraj-Mikołajczyk and Paweł Mikołajczyk about the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland. They introduce listeners to their church and some current developments in it. Since the church will host the assembly of the Lutheran World Federation next month Assembly one of the exciting tasks at the moment is how to welcome members of the LWF from all around the world. Marta and Paweł also talk about their pastoral work for more equality and inclusiveness in Poland and their church.

Our guest today is Sarah Hinlicky Wilson. Sarah is the Founder of Thornbush Press, launched in 2020, and author of a number of books under its imprint: I Am a Brave Bridge, Sermon on the Mount: A Poetic Paraphrase, Small Catechism: Memorizing Edition, Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold, To Baptize or Not to Baptize: A Practical Guide for Clergy, and A-Tumblin' Down.Since August 2018 she has lived in Mitaka, Japan, on the campus of Japan Lutheran College and Theological Seminary, where her husband Andrew L. Wilson is Professor of Church History. She serves as one of the pastors at Tokyo Lutheran Church near the Shin-Ōkubo station in central Tokyo. She is also an Affiliated Faculty Member at the Johannelund School of Theology in Uppsala, Sweden.From July 2016 to July 2018 she lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, getting reacquainted with her home territory in between international sojourns. During that period she wrote a memoir about the year she spent in the newborn Republic of Slovakia when she was 17.From 2008 to 2016 she lived in Strasbourg, France, where she worked at the Institute for Ecumenical Research, a close affiliate of the Lutheran World Federation, specializing in Eastern Orthodoxy and Pentecostalism. She continuse to serve as a Visiting Professor of the Institute and, as such, the Consultant to the International Lutheran-Pentecostal Dialogue. With her colleague Theodor Dieter from the Institute, she teaches an annual course in Wittenberg, Germany, on Martin Luther's theology.In 2010, Andrew and she followed the footsteps of Martin Luther's pilgrimage from Germany to Rome five hundred (or maybe four hundred ninety-nine) years earlier.She earned a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology in 2008 and an M.Div. in 2003 at Princeton Theological Seminary. During that time, Andrew and Sarah got married and became parents to Zeke. She served as pastor at a Slovak-American church in Trenton, New Jersey, and became the editor of Lutheran Forum, an independent theological quarterly, which she continued to do until the end of 2018. All her articles from that period are available here.Before graduate school she spent one year working at First Things, where she first started publishing theological essays. Since her first in October 1998, she has published hundreds of articles in popular venues like Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and Books & Culture, as well as scholarly journals like Pro Ecclesia, Pneuma, Lutheran Quarterly, and Concordia Journal. She has edited four books and contributed to a few more.She did her growing up in New York and New Jersey and still thinks of herself as a New Yorker, even though she hasn't lived there since the last millennium.

Christian Acemah is Head of School, Olney Friends School in Barnesville, OH. He also has senior leadership experience as Executive Director of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) in Kampala. Uganda. Previously, he served as Strategy and Program Development Director for the Africa program (ASADI) of the US National Academies Washington, DC. He also taught African Studies at Quest University in British Columbia, Canada. He started his career in global health and development in the Sudan-Uganda program of the Lutheran World Federation. He then joined UNICEF/GAVI in Geneva, Switzerland, to join the CEO's team as Executive Officer, Policy and Research. Christian loves the LLO program and our cohort! Connect with Christian here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-a-12711781/

Today's reading, Luke 9:28-36, is for Transfiguration Sunday, February 27, 2022. The title of this podcast is “Divine Intervention.” God chose and sent Jesus to usher in the kingdom of God through his own death and resurrection. Which means that Jesus knew all about politics, wars, and violence. To navigate a way forward, Jesus relies on prayer, solitude, scriptures, old mentors, and new friends. I pray that the Holy Spirit will guide and encourage each one of us through whatever uncertainties and fears we may be facing. Please open your Bible to Luke 9:28-36. I want to begin, though, with a prayer for peace:Dear God, as we open your word today, fill us with your Spirit, so that we can receive your instruction and do as you command. Forgive our warring ways, O God, and lead us in the ways that lead to peace in our hearts and in our world. Amen.Luke 9:[22-27]28-36[And he said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. 25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self? 26 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.27 “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”]28 About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. 30 Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. 31 They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem. 32 Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. 33 As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what he was saying.)34 While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. 35 A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.” 36 When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone. The disciples kept this to themselves and did not tell anyone at that time what they had seen.Links:And with our prayers, we work for justice and peace everywhere. The Lutheran Church has agencies around the world, including Ukraine. I've included links to a couple of good humanitarian organizations here: Lutheran World Relief and the Lutheran World Federation. Listen to Jesus. Grieve the suffering in our world. And don't forget to pray.Support the show (https://secure.myvanco.com/YKER/home)

(Your host enjoys using the umlaut function for this episode!) Who is Eberhard Jüngel? Dr. Dave Nelson joins the podcast to discuss a significant and interesting 20th-century German theologian who is sometimes overlooked in the 'Anglosphere'. Tune in to this episode learn more about Jüngel, his commentary on secularization, his relationship to the theologies of Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann, and the 'New Hermeneutic' (or New Quest for the Historical Jesus), as well as Jüngel's ecumenical work and revolt against (and later endorsement of!) JDDJ (the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification between the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation). This was fascinating stuff! Dr. David Nelson received his Ph.D. from Aberdeen University where he studied under John Webster. Dr. Nelson is the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Baker Academic and Brazos Press, and editor for Lutheran Forum, USA. As of 2022, Dr. Nelson is the Director of Baylor University Press. He has authored, edited, and contributed to several books including Jüngel: A Guide to the Perplexed and The Interruptive Word: Eberhard Jüngel on the Sacramental Structure of God's Relation to the World. Dr. Nelson also taught courses at the Institute of Lutheran Theology, where your host Rev. Andrew studies at. Links to purchase the previously mentioned workes by Dr. Nelson: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/j%C3%BCngel-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-9780567660053/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/interruptive-word-9780567658609/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda is the Founding Director of the Center for Climate Justice and Faith at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS), and a co-founder of Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability. She has provided education worldwide in theology; ethics; and matters of climate justice and climate racism, eco-feminist theology, and faith-based resistance to systemic oppression. Her Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress, 2013), won a Nautilus Book Award for social justice. She is one of 3 North Americans appointed to a global team to advise the World Council of Churches and Lutheran World Federation on their work toward a new international financial architecture. This week, Cynthia offered experiential programming on faith-based climate justice. Her workshops were titled "Beloved Creatures, Created to Love…Yet “Uncreating," "Forging Ways of Living that Enable Earth's Web of Life to Flourish," "Seeds of Hope and Moral-Spiritual Power Rooted in Faith," and "Building on Hope and Moral-Spiritual Power Rooted in Faith."

This video is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. For 10% off your first month, use the link, http://www.faithfulcounseling.com/gospelsimplicityWhat does the Catholic church teach when it comes to the topic of Justification? If you're familiar with a bit of church history, you know that justification, and specifically the doctrine of justification by faith alone, sola fide, was at the heart of the Reformation. Churches have split, anathemas have been pronounced, and no small amount of ink has been shed on the topic of Justification. Since the Second Vatican Council, Protestants and Catholics have been participating in dialogues to see if perhaps they can come together on this doctrine. Most famously, in 1999 the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification was signed between the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation. However, despite this progress, Catholics and Protestants remain divided, and many Protestants wonder what it is that Catholics teach about Justification. Do Catholics believe that we're justified by works? Can Catholics agree to the doctrine of justification by faith alone and what does all this talk about "merit" mean? In this interview, we tackle these questions and more as Jimmy Akin carefully guides us through a Catholic understanding of the doctrine of Justification. Jimmy Akin is a Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers. You can find his books, podcast, and more by going to http://www.jimmyakin.comSupport Gospel Simplicity:Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/gospelsimplicity​One Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/gospelsimplicityMerch: https://gospelsimplicity.creator-spring

Für 77 Millionen lutherische Christen ist die estnische Theologin bald verantwortlich: Anne Burghardt ist neue Generalsekretärin des Lutherischen Weltbundes, die erste Frau und Osteuropäerin in diesem Amt. Besonders die Ökumene liegt ihr am Herzen, als Gegenstück zum Papst sieht sie sich allerdings nicht.

We are pleased to share a new podcast episode recorded with current resident Sanaa Aoun. Sanaa was joined in conversation with Longyearbyen Parish priest, Siv S. Limstrand and translator Rim Ibrahim. Their discussion covers Sanaa's work, her time in Norway as a Free City author from Damascus, Syria and her experiences of Longyearbyen.  Sanaa also shares readings from her recent work in Arabic. The podcast is in Norwegian and translated by Rim Ibrahim Siv S. Limstrand, Parish priest on Svalbard since 2019. Siv previously worked at the Lutheran World Federation in Geneve, she was a student priest at NTNU and HiST in Trondheim for several years, working with people affected by HIV/AIDS in mid-Norway. Limstrand also worked as a Street priest for the Church City Mission in Trondheim and was responsible for Our Lady's church - the Trondheim city open care church. For Siv Svalbard is a point of extension - in life and geographically. Located on top of the world, connected, but far away. A place that gives views and perspective, meaning and challenges, that invites new joys and exploration of the fearsome.  Sanaa Aoun is an author and teacher from Damascus, Syria and came to Tromsø, Norway as a free city author in 2016. Aoun has published two collections of short stories in Arabic, Red Lifelines (2007) and To Where the Compass Points (2018), and continues to be a regular contributor to Arabic online newspapers. In Norwegian, her texts have been published in Klassekampen and in the anthology For Folk Flest (2017). In June 2018, her monologue A Half Woman was performed at Hålogaland Theater. Several of her texts have been translated into English and German.  Sanaa Aoun was nominated by Norsk Pen for a residency at Artica in June 2021.

Jesus is on a resurrection tour! He appears to the disciples not once but time and again - and then again when different ones among them are gathered.  His set-list stays the same: Peace! But he changes the way he communicates.  Likewise, we will need to communicate again and again the ways that we gather, our consent, our needs and what this new way of being looks like.  We'll have to be patient and grace filled, even with the doubters.  May Jesus bless us with his Spirit![Sermon at 24:08]Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Come Walk with Us, Contributors: Anders Nyberg, Lutheran World Federation, Gerhard Cartford, Tune: Arrangement © Peace of Music Publishing AB, admin. Walton Music Corp. Text: English tr. © Lutheran World FederationYou're Not Alone - © 2005 Bryan Moyer Suderman/SmallTall Music, Tune: Bryan Moyer Suderman Text: based on 1 Corinthians 12:4-26, Bryan Moyer SudermanHoly Spirit Come to Us - Jacques Berthier, Taizé We will Walk with God Together - Text: Tr. by Bell; Tr. © 2002, WGRG c/o Iona Community, GIA Publications, Inc., agentImage: Drawing by Pastor Amy

My guest this week is Árni Svanur Daníelsson who is the Head of Communication for the Lutheran World Federation. We learn that Árni used to work in a video rental shop and became acquainted with film history. He went on to study theology at university and was involved in a theology and film group Deus ex Cinema. We talk about the theology and film field and the possibilities that online communication have brought about, including podcasts which are allowing people to be creative. Árni was born in Iceland in 1973, he grew up in a small family and he remembers growing up around a big forest. He talks about why The Empire Strikes Back, which he saw at the cinema three times, is such a key memory for him. We also learn about Árni's musical influences and how music has been a way for him to connect with his children. Árni talks about doing his degree in Iceland and his research on the way pastors are represented in film, and he discusses how film is a good way of understanding and of critique. We discover that in 2008 he was ordained as the first online pastor of the Church of Iceland, and we move on to talk about the impact of lockdown on ministry and we discover what his biggest hopes are once lockdown ends. At the end of the interview, we learn that Árni's memories are mainly positive and we talk about the role of grief and how our perceptions of grief may be reframed later in life. We discover that his younger self wouldn't have been able to imagine what he is doing now and Árni reveals why he reflects with gratitude on his past. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Árni Svanur Daníelsson and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

Preached by guest preacher Savanna Sullivan, Program Executive for Youth, Lutheran World Federation, May 23, 2021 (Day of Pentecost) Learn more about St. Philip Lutheran Church, Glenview, IL: https://www.stphilipglenview.org/ Support our work: tinyurl.com/GiveSPLC or on Venmo @stphilipglenview

This week's conversation is with my dear friend and colleague Dirk Lange, Professor of Worship and Frederik A. Schiotz Chair of Christian Missions and  deputy general secretary for ecumenical relations of the Lutheran World Federation. We discuss his recently-published book, Today Everything Is Different: An Adventure in Prayer and Action. Welcome to our newest sponsor, Chavaleh Forgey (encouragementsings@gmail.com) who professionally trains public speakers, actors, and singers on how to use their voices effectively! Contact her at the email above for more information. Thanks to Sara Renner (listen to her interview here!) for allowing us to use "Altogether Beautiful," the title track on her new album, which can be purchased at the following link:https://sararenner.bandcamp.com/Many thanks to our other sponsors:Baker Academic.Worship ForwardStudio 2 Ceramics. 10% discount code: GOSPELSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/gospelbeautiful)

Jessica Oddy is an education in emergencies specialist and a PhD candidate at the University of East London's Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, where she's also a lecturer as part of an Open Learning Initiative Higher Education preparation course for asylum seekers and refugees. Her current research focuses on diverse young people's experiences of education in emergencies, colonial legacies, and how race power and privilege intersect with humanitarian education responses. She has worked with organizations such as Oxfam, War Child UK, Save the Children, Lutheran World Federation, and others. We speak about:education as a protection issueracism in the aid sectorthe politics of knowledge production the demand for programming for adolescents in education in emergencies the narrative of educabilityher PhD journey & action research equity based design - and much more!She joins us from London, UK. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/rethinkingdevelopment)

* 95 Theses: Bob Enyart reads DBC's 95 Theses to the Jefferson County Health Department which is soon to be nailed to the doors of Denver Bible Church. First though, to atone for his whiteness, Bob announces that he's giving up Coca-Cola! And he thanks Canada's pastor James Coates for having the courage even to be arrested to stand for the freedom to worship God even through the coviphobia. * 2021 BEL Telethon: Our telethon has reached $21,521 of our $50,000 goal. If you can, please help by calling 1-800-8Enyart (836-9278) or clicking on the Telethon banner or heading over to kgov.com/store. Thank you all so very much! * Luther's 95 Theses: As Protestants we are stuck with Martin Luther, a virulent anti-Semite (see kgov.com/luther) as admitted by the Lutheran World Federation. See our BEL comments on the 500th anniversary of Luther's 95 theses.  

The gender gap in trades is real and the industry can benefit from more women in the field as it would provide a key role in the adjustment of labor supply to meet market demands. On this week's episode, we discuss SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities with Nour Hamayel, a gender and inclusion officer at The Lutheran World Federation who is leading the Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) – a program to improve education, training, and employment for Palestinian women in non-traditional fields. Learn more about the project: Canadian Lutheran World Relief The Lutheran World Federation Jerusalem Program About the project

An interview with Prof. Michael Reeves, President and Professor of Theology at Union School of Theology, UK. Author of books such as The Unquenchable Flame. Discovering the Heart of the Reformation (2010) and (with Tim Chester), Why The Reformation Still Matters (2016).On October 31, 1999, the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation signed ‘The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification' (JDDJ), claiming that they were ‘now able to articulate a common understanding of our justification by God's grace through faith in Christ.' This has led many since to think that the fundamental theological differences of the Reformation have now been resolved, and that there remains little or nothing of real theological substance to prevent evangelical-Catholic unity. Professor Mark Noll, for instance, boldly declared,If it is true, as once was repeated frequently by Protestants conscious of their anchorage in Martin Luther or John Calvin that iustificatio articulus stantis vel cadentis ecclesiae (justification is the article on which the church stands or falls), then the Reformation is over.Is the Reformation indeed, over? Listen as Dr. Reeves helps us make sense of the JDDJ.Episode ResourcesLearn more about Dr. Reeves and his ministry, Union Mission, at www.union-mission.orgRead a similar interview with Dr. ReevesRead the 1999 Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of JustificationRead and sign the statement: "Is the Reformation Over? A Statement of Evangelical Convictions"

There we were, calmly recording our regularly scheduled episodes during our pandemic-imposed quiet, including a couple on holy communion for later this spring... when a good old-fashioned theological controversy erupted under our feet. We weigh in on the question of whether holy communion can be consecrated via the internet (spoiler alert: no) and why we think so; but we also lift up the great things that can be done to foster and uplift the Christian community by digital means during this time of distancing and eucharistic fasting. Just in time for Maundy Thursday 2020!   Notes:   1. Dad's statement, "Why Virtual Communion Is Not Nearly Radical Enough"   2. Yeago, "Word, Sacrament, and Quarantine"   3. Lange, "Digital Worship and Sacramental Life in a Time of Pandemic" on the Lutheran World Federation website   4. Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration 7   5. Kleinhans, Schroeder, and Peterson, "Concerning Online Communion"   6. Thompson, "Christ Is Really Present Virtually: A Proposal for Virtual Communion." See also her book The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World   7. Jorgenson, "Corona and Communion"   8. If you aren't already deluged with online options for worship and sermons, you can check out my YouTube sermon channel   More about us at sarahhinlickywilson.com and paulhinlicky.com!

Today's episode includes Pastor Laura Gentry's sermon on the 23rd Psalm, prayers for healing from the Lutheran World Federation and the song, God is Holding Your Life by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan. You can see the entire virtual worship service here.Another song we recommend you listen to is the 23rd Psalm by John Hermanson.We pray this messages ministers to your soul right now. May God's peace be with you. Learn more about our ministry at LansingLutherans.org.Support the show (https://www.dbqfoundation.org/donors-ways-give/give-now?agency=5383&foundation=45)

Faith: "Think Globally" is the message today by Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. Part 2 of Sermon Series. Marble is hosting the ecumenical inauguration of the United Nations Climate Action Summit, which will be held in New York. The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, will be our special guest preacher. General Secretary of ACT Alliance, Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, and President of Bread for the World, Rev. Dr. Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel will also be participating in the service. We will also have other dignitaries from the WCC and UN, and Christian leaders from other countries. Immediately after the service, Dr. Bos moderates a panel with our special guests in the Sanctuary on “Mobilization of Faith Communities for Climate Action”. Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit was elected general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in August 2009, and was re-elected to a second term in July 2014. As general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Tveit has led the fellowship of churches through such gatherings as the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (Kingston, Jamaica, 2011) and the 10th Assembly of the WCC (Busan, Republic of Korea, 2013). He has also been instrumental in leadership of international consultations on such topics as climate change, peacemaking and refugee resettlement. Before taking up the post of general secretary, Tveit served the WCC as a member of the Faith and Order Plenary Commission and as a co-chair of the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum core group. Since 2017, Mr. Rudelmar Bueno de Faria is the general secretary of ACT Alliance, a coalition of Protestant and Orthodox churches and church-related organizations engaged in humanitarian, development and advocacy work in the world. He has worked for 25 years in confessional and ecumenical organizations such as the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Lutheran World Federation and the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil. Since 2000, Rev. Dr. h. c. Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel (MA) heads the Protestant relief organizations Bread for the World and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, first as director and since 2012 as president. She was instrumental in founding and establishing the first worldwide network of churches and church organizations in the field of development and humanitarian aid, ACT Alliance in 2010, which she chaired until 2014. In 2014, she became chair of the ACT Alliance's Membership and Nomination Committee. She has been involved for several years in various bodies of the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. She is also a member of the Chamber for Global Ecumenism of the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) and the Commission for the Bilateral Theological Dialogue of the EKD with the Russian Orthodox Church. United Nations Climate Action Summit UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on leaders to come to the Summit with concrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020, in line with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent over the next decade, and to net zero emissions by 2050. To boost ambition and accelerate actions to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is asking leaders, from government, business and civil society, including churches to come to the 2019 Climate Action Summit on 23 September with plans to address the global climate emergency. The Summit will spark the transformation that is urgently needed and propel action that will benefit everyone. For more information about this summit, please visit: https://www.un.org/climatechange/ WCC The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity. The WCC brings together churches, denominations and church fellowships in more than 110 countries and territories throughout the world, representing over 500 million Christians and including most of the world's Orthodox churches, scores of Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed churches, as well as many United and Independent churches. ACT Alliance ACT Alliance is the largest coalition of Protestant and Orthodox churches and church-related organisations engaged in humanitarian, development and advocacy work in the world, consisting of 155 members working together in over 140 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality in keeping with the highest international codes and standards. LWF The Lutheran World Federation is a global communion of churches in the Lutheran tradition on a common journey of renewal. It strives to put faith into action within and beyond the communion. The LWF is a global communion of 148 churches in the Lutheran tradition, representing over 75.5 million Christians in 99 countries.

We were blessed this week to be joined by Archbishop Musa Filibus. Let’s hear what he thinks about “The Good Life”.  Let’s find out as we close our final week of the good life series. Archbishop Musa is from the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria, he also is the President of The Lutheran World Federation. Song: Far Away Star by Lishuid Support our podcast here

Barbara Rossing first came to Holden as Waitri in 1973 and also served as Village pastor 1986-88. She is professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, where she also directs the seminary's environmental ministry emphasis. Her publications include The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Basic Books, 2004); Journeys Through Revelation: Apocalyptic Hope for Today (Presbyterian Church USA, 2010); “Revelation” in The Fortress Commentary on the Bible (2014), and articles and book chapters on the Bible and ecology, including the Lutheran World Federation's publication "Creation-- Not For Sale." She chairs the Society of Biblical Literature's Ecological Hermeneutics section, and is active in public theology in both the scholarly academy and the church, working on climate change and the Bible. She loves working on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, including ecumenical responses to Pope Francis's encyclical letter on climate change. She received the MDiv degree from Yale University Divinity School, and the ThD from Harvard University. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org

Elected as the ELCA's fourth presiding bishop at the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton earned a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and a Bachelor of Music Education from the College of Wooster. Ordained in 1981, Eaton served three congregations in Ohio before being elected bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod in 2006 and re-elected in May 2013. Eaton's four emphases for the ELCA are: We are church. We are Lutheran. We are church together. We are church for the sake of the world. These four emphases are fundamental to identifying who the ELCA is. In 2015, under Eaton's leadership, the ELCA underwent an extensive vision process to help this church journey faithfully and effectively together in the years ahead. The process resulted in Future Directions 2025, a strategic framework that serves shared leadership across the ELCA to realize common aspirations and better face the challenges of this church. In addition, with Eaton's guidance, the ELCA launched Bishop Eaton's Leadership Initiative, which encourages all ELCA members to seek out and inspire gifted people in our congregations and communities to consider a call to the ministry of the gospel. Eaton also called together a task force in 2016 to draft a policy statement for inter-religious relations in the ELCA. As the chief ecumenical officer of the ELCA, she represents this church in a wide range of ecumenical and interfaith settings. She is the vice president for North America on the Council of The Lutheran World Federation and serves on the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA Governing Board and Development Committee, and Religions for Peace USA Council of Presidents. As presiding bishop, Eaton travels extensively, representing the ELCA in a variety of capacities. This has included a visit to a Syrian refugee camp, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with Lutherans from around the world in Namibia and participating in an ecumenical service commemorating the Reformation in the Lund, Sweden, cathedral with Pope Francis. Eaton's husband is the Rev. T. Conrad Selnick, an Episcopal priest. They are parents of two adult children, Rebeckah and Susannah. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org

As the Lutheran World Federation celebrates 500 years of Protestantism, Namibians remember a grim chapter of their history. Missionaries set sail for the future German colony of South West Africa in 1840 fired with the ideals of the Reformation. But their message of humble service prepared the way for economic exploitation - and a conflict that ended in genocide.

Rev. Dr. Patricia Cuyatti is Area Desk Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Lutheran World Federation. She earned her ThM at LSTC in 2007 and her PhD in 2010. She is Presbyterian and she preached at a joint worship service of LSTC and McCormick Theological Seminary. Her text was Matthew 21:23-32.

Most Russian Lutherans are ethnic Germans. Although services are now conducted in Russian, the "Our Father” is still prayed in the language of Luther. The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Russia has some 40,000 members and is headed by 34-year-old Dietrich Brauer, the youngest archbishop in the Lutheran World Federation.

Graham Hill and Bishop Munib Younan discuss what it means to seek peace in Jerusalem and in the world. The GlobalChurch Project, podcast episode #56. This podcast (and its associated video) was made possible through the generous sponsorship of The Refuge – Oran Park Baptist Church.Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan is head of The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, and President of the Lutheran World Federation.Bishop Younan was educated in Palestine and Finland and has been active in numerous faith organizations since his ordination in 1976, such as the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Fellowship of the Middle East Evangelical Churches (FMEEC). The bishop was the first to translate the Augsburg Confession, a key document of the Lutheran Church, into Arabic. He is an active member of various ecumenical and interfaith dialogue initiatives in Jerusalem that he helped found.In July 2010, he was elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), a global communion of Christian churches with 145 member churches in 79 countries representing more than 70 million Christians. He is past president of FMEEC and provides leadership for the ecumenical Patriarchs and Heads of Local Christian Churches in Jerusalem, as well as for the Council of Religious Institutions in the Holy Land (CRIHL), comprised of leaders of Jerusalem’s Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities.He is the author of Witnessing for Peace: In Jerusalem and the World (Augsburg Fortress, USA, 2003), Our Shared Witness: A Voice for Justice and Reconciliation (Lutheran University Press, 2012) and of The Augsburg Confession in Arabic (Emerezian Est., Jerusalem, 1993). Bishop Younan also has written numerous articles, lectures and presentations relating to the life of Palestinian Lutherans in the Middle East.

Vítor Westhelle and Graham Hill discuss “Listening attentively to prophetic postcolonial voices and to our scandalous God.” The GlobalChurch Project podcast episode 53.Vítor Westhelle was called to the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 1993 as associate professor and promoted to professor of systematic theology in 1999. Before joining the seminary’s faculty, Dr. Westhelle was on the faculty of Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary and Escola Superior de Teologia, Brazil. He was visiting professor at the University of Natal, South Africa, and the University of Aarhus, Denmark.Dr. Westhelle began his theological career as a journalist for the national church newspaper in São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil (1975-76) . Ordained in 1988, he served for four years as parish pastor of a 13-point parish in Paróquia Evangélica de Matelândia, PR, Brazil. At that time he also was the Coordinator of the Ecumenical Commission on Land in Paraná where he was an enabler and a companion with those struggling for land and justice. In 1989 Westhelle was invited to be a member of the faculty of Escola Superior de Teologia, São Leopoldo as professor of systematic theology and ethics, where he continued until he joined the Lutheran School of Theology in 1993.Dr. Westhelle studied Sociology at UNISINOS, Brazil, and earned the B.Th in 1977 from Faculdade de Teologia da IECLB, Brazil. He received the Th.M and Ph.D. degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, in 1984. While his Th.M exams were on “Luther’s Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms and the Theology of Juan Luis Segundo,” and his doctoral dissertation title is “Religion and Representation: A Study of Hegel’s Critical Theories of Vorstellungand their Relevance for Hegelianism and Theology.” Westhelle has studied at the University of Chicago, Chicago Theological Seminary and Jesuit School of Theology, and did post-doctoral work at the University of Tübingen in 1995.A prolific writer and editor, with more than 130 scholarly publications, Westhelle is author or co-editor of nine books. He has written widely on the theology of Luther, and on the themes of Liberation, Creation, the Apocalyptic and Eschatology. The cross-theme, in particular, theologia crucis, defines who Westhelle is as a theologian. For him the theology of the cross is not a doctrine but that which you live by, a usus passionis. It is the cross-ing that arrests his attention and through his writings he tries to find categories to name and cross differences without suppressing them but rather lifting them up: liminality, chora, stasis, hybridity, adjacency, eschata, margin, borderline, chiaroscuro, etc. He strives to convey that the gospel is the transgression of “legal” domains, semantic fields with their protocols, or régimes of truth, while being neither and both the abolition and the completion of the law. He is adept in bringing together theology and literature. Another area of interest on which Westhelle has written and lectured is location or spaces, which for him are wrappings of the divine.Westhelle is a highly-sought speaker throughout academic circles and the Church. From 1990-97 he was an advisor to the Executive Council of the Lutheran World Federation and a member of the Program Committee for Theology and Studies of the Lutheran World Federation. Until 2001, he was a member of the Core Group of the LWF/DTS project on “Communion, Community, and Society”. Westhelle has served as a member of the Continuation Committee of the International Congress for Luther Research. He currently serves on the editorial council of Dialog, Lutheran Quarterly, International Editorial Council of Margens: Revista Brasiliera de Estudos sobre Pós-modernidade, Estudos Teológicos (EST-Brazil), Cuadernos de Teología (ISEDET-Argentina), Numen: Revista de Estudos e Pesquisa da Religião (UFJDF, Brazil), Bulletin of Contextual Theology, South Africa, Bibliografia Bíblica Latino-Americana (São Paulo, Brazil).

ACTUALIDAD DX.COM.AR Hello dear friends of Actualidad DX.com.ar the DXIng program aired weekly by RAE - Argentina to the World. Argentina’s International Short Wave Radio Station.Remember you can send your messages to actualidaddx.com.ar@gmail.comYou can also write to us: RAE - CC555 - PO Box 1000, BA, Argentina.CORTINA MUSICALLet’s start with some hearings:Clandestine broadcaster Radio Itakuha, for Burundi, could be picked up via a transmitter located in Talata, Madagascar, on April 1, between 1800 and 1900 on 15420 KHZ, with 250 KW, airing programs for Southwest Africa, in Kirundi language. The station only broadcasts on Saturdays.AUDIO No. 1Religious station Lutheran World Federation, or Voice of Gospel, was picked up from the transmitters in Issoudun, France, between 1830 and 1900 on 15315 KHZ; with 500 KW, and programs in Fulfulde language.Another interesting broadcaster is Radio ERGO, for Somalia, via transmitters in Dhabayya, United Arab Emirates. The station could be picked up between 1200 and 1300 on 17485 KHZ with 250 KW for Eastern Africa. They broadcast 7 days a week.AUDIO No. 2We continue with Africa. We’ve got now some hearings by Spanish colleague Manuel Méndez, from Lugo. He reports:Radio Mali, from Bamako, on 5995 KHZ, between 1849-1910 UTC, in French and vernacular.Voice of Nigeria, via transmitter in Ikorodu, on 7255 KHZ between 1830 and 1845 in vernacular.And finally, Radio Hargeisa from Somalia, on 7120 KHZ between 1839 and 1847, in vernacular.AUDIO No. 3Now some news from our country.Recently, the National Communications Authority ENACOM, ruled in favor of Perfil, a publishing and media company, that had bidded for obtaining a broadcasting license that used to belong to former Radio America.The decision was informed by the board of ENACOM, that chairs Miguel De Godoy.AUDIO No. 4Perfil owns a building at the Edition and Design Cluster of BA City, built to house a newspaper, magazines, websites, two TV channels and two radio stations, one AM and another FM.The project of having a radio airing only news is linked to the history of the now defunct Radio America.Impresario Eduardo Eurnekian had bought it back in 1989, and he changed the name to América from Radio Antarctica. It had been also called Malvinas Argentinas and Radio Phoenix, when it was originally established in the 1920s.24-hour news stations are successful in various countries, but so far, in Argentina, there’s nothing like that.In Brazil, for instance, the prestigious CBN, Brazilian News Central, is third in ratings in the South American giant.The oldest broadcaster of this kind is New York’s AM1010 WIns, that marked 50 years broadcasting only news in 2015.CORTINA MUSICALWe have now very sad news, that will be a blow to everybody linked to the world of shortwaves.Reverend José Holowaty died last March 26, as Swedish DXer Henrik Klemetz reports to us.Holowaty’s characteristic voice was transmitted via the now defunct KGEI Short Wave station in San Francisco, US.AUDIO No. 6Holowaty had been living in Paraguay, where he created Radio Broadcasting America.On the remarkable site: programasdx.com, there’s a file by Rubén Margenent from KGEI.On July 31, 1994, KGEI, the Voice of Friendship was coming off the air for good.But a little earlier, in 1991, they had broadcast programs tailored for DXers. The segments were only five minutes long, but they were aired several times a day. On 1305, 0335, 0705 on 9615 kHz and 0005 on 15280 kHz, produced and hosted by Samuel A. Ramírez and Benito J. Quintana, with talk about topics picked up from a book called “Shortwave Radio Listening with the experts”.On this edition you’ll hear makes reference to the QSL card. It’s hosted by the late José Holowaty, who introduces the show and informs listeners they are tuned in on KGEI.CORTINA MUSICALLet’s move on now to Short Wave news of international broadcasters.France’s RFI launched the third edtion of the prize “RFI Interview in Spanish”, for Latin American and Caribbean students of journalism.This contest is open between March 22 and May 21 2017, aimed at journalism students below the age of 30.The winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 7, in the context of the Latin American and Caribbean week in France.Journalism schools are invited to present a candidate via email to : premio.reportaje@rfi.fr.Until May 21, they can submit a radio interview of up to 20 minutes, as well as a proposal for an interview to carry out in Paris.A jury integrated by RFI journalists will analyze candidates’ work and chose the winner, that will be announced at the Paris America show of June 7, 2017.The prize is a paid internship at the Spanish-language newsroom of RFI in Paris, during 2017, with all expenses covered.This comest few months before France 24 launches its Spanish-language version next September.RFI and France 24, lets’ recall, are both part of State-ran media conglomerate France Médias Monde.Last year, the winner was Mélany Itzel Castellanos, from the José Vasconcelos de Oaxaca University in México.She was recognized for her story “Hilaria and her period”, about the stigmatization of the women in her region when they are menstruating.CORTINA MUSICALAnd now, a story that mixes both traditional, radio and new technologies.Radio shows about the Basque community are not new in Argentina and Uruguay, neither is how passionately the Basques in the Plata basin area turned to them.But unfortunately, these programs instead of multiplying are diminishing in numbers, in spite of the possibility of listening to any station anywhere in the world, from anywhere in the world.One of the outstanding characteristics of this era is the the need for us to be and feel communicated.The Basque diaspora uses technology to face this need and cut down the distance from Euskal Herria.But the traditional ways of communicating are still alive, and in fact, are using new technologies to deliver with higher quality and efficiency.There are currently five radio programs in the Southern Cone area, locally produced, featuring varied content: music, entertainment, sports, politics and current affairs.Every program includes stories about Euskal Herria and a local chapter, about the Euskal Etxea of the city where it is established.Even though originally local radios could only be picked up via local stations, with a limited range, nowadays shows can be listened to through internet, which gives listeners the chance to contact with hosts in real time via social media from anywhere in the world.

ACTUALIDAD DX.COM.AR Hello dear friends of Actualidad DX.com.ar the DXIng program aired weekly by RAE - Argentina to the World. Argentina’s International Short Wave Radio Station.Remember you can send your messages to actualidaddx.com.ar@gmail.comYou can also write to us: RAE - CC555 - PO Box 1000, BA, Argentina.CORTINA MUSICALLet’s start with some hearings:Clandestine broadcaster Radio Itakuha, for Burundi, could be picked up via a transmitter located in Talata, Madagascar, on April 1, between 1800 and 1900 on 15420 KHZ, with 250 KW, airing programs for Southwest Africa, in Kirundi language. The station only broadcasts on Saturdays.AUDIO No. 1Religious station Lutheran World Federation, or Voice of Gospel, was picked up from the transmitters in Issoudun, France, between 1830 and 1900 on 15315 KHZ; with 500 KW, and programs in Fulfulde language.Another interesting broadcaster is Radio ERGO, for Somalia, via transmitters in Dhabayya, United Arab Emirates. The station could be picked up between 1200 and 1300 on 17485 KHZ with 250 KW for Eastern Africa. They broadcast 7 days a week.AUDIO No. 2We continue with Africa. We’ve got now some hearings by Spanish colleague Manuel Méndez, from Lugo. He reports:Radio Mali, from Bamako, on 5995 KHZ, between 1849-1910 UTC, in French and vernacular.Voice of Nigeria, via transmitter in Ikorodu, on 7255 KHZ between 1830 and 1845 in vernacular.And finally, Radio Hargeisa from Somalia, on 7120 KHZ between 1839 and 1847, in vernacular.AUDIO No. 3Now some news from our country.Recently, the National Communications Authority ENACOM, ruled in favor of Perfil, a publishing and media company, that had bidded for obtaining a broadcasting license that used to belong to former Radio America.The decision was informed by the board of ENACOM, that chairs Miguel De Godoy.AUDIO No. 4Perfil owns a building at the Edition and Design Cluster of BA City, built to house a newspaper, magazines, websites, two TV channels and two radio stations, one AM and another FM.The project of having a radio airing only news is linked to the history of the now defunct Radio America.Impresario Eduardo Eurnekian had bought it back in 1989, and he changed the name to América from Radio Antarctica. It had been also called Malvinas Argentinas and Radio Phoenix, when it was originally established in the 1920s.24-hour news stations are successful in various countries, but so far, in Argentina, there’s nothing like that.In Brazil, for instance, the prestigious CBN, Brazilian News Central, is third in ratings in the South American giant.The oldest broadcaster of this kind is New York’s AM1010 WIns, that marked 50 years broadcasting only news in 2015.CORTINA MUSICALWe have now very sad news, that will be a blow to everybody linked to the world of shortwaves.Reverend José Holowaty died last March 26, as Swedish DXer Henrik Klemetz reports to us.Holowaty’s characteristic voice was transmitted via the now defunct KGEI Short Wave station in San Francisco, US.AUDIO No. 6Holowaty had been living in Paraguay, where he created Radio Broadcasting America.On the remarkable site: programasdx.com, there’s a file by Rubén Margenent from KGEI.On July 31, 1994, KGEI, the Voice of Friendship was coming off the air for good.But a little earlier, in 1991, they had broadcast programs tailored for DXers. The segments were only five minutes long, but they were aired several times a day. On 1305, 0335, 0705 on 9615 kHz and 0005 on 15280 kHz, produced and hosted by Samuel A. Ramírez and Benito J. Quintana, with talk about topics picked up from a book called “Shortwave Radio Listening with the experts”.On this edition you’ll hear makes reference to the QSL card. It’s hosted by the late José Holowaty, who introduces the show and informs listeners they are tuned in on KGEI.CORTINA MUSICALLet’s move on now to Short Wave news of international broadcasters.France’s RFI launched the third edtion of the prize “RFI Interview in Spanish”, for Latin American and Caribbean students of journalism.This contest is open between March 22 and May 21 2017, aimed at journalism students below the age of 30.The winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 7, in the context of the Latin American and Caribbean week in France.Journalism schools are invited to present a candidate via email to : premio.reportaje@rfi.fr.Until May 21, they can submit a radio interview of up to 20 minutes, as well as a proposal for an interview to carry out in Paris.A jury integrated by RFI journalists will analyze candidates’ work and chose the winner, that will be announced at the Paris America show of June 7, 2017.The prize is a paid internship at the Spanish-language newsroom of RFI in Paris, during 2017, with all expenses covered.This comest few months before France 24 launches its Spanish-language version next September.RFI and France 24, lets’ recall, are both part of State-ran media conglomerate France Médias Monde.Last year, the winner was Mélany Itzel Castellanos, from the José Vasconcelos de Oaxaca University in México.She was recognized for her story “Hilaria and her period”, about the stigmatization of the women in her region when they are menstruating.CORTINA MUSICALAnd now, a story that mixes both traditional, radio and new technologies.Radio shows about the Basque community are not new in Argentina and Uruguay, neither is how passionately the Basques in the Plata basin area turned to them.But unfortunately, these programs instead of multiplying are diminishing in numbers, in spite of the possibility of listening to any station anywhere in the world, from anywhere in the world.One of the outstanding characteristics of this era is the the need for us to be and feel communicated.The Basque diaspora uses technology to face this need and cut down the distance from Euskal Herria.But the traditional ways of communicating are still alive, and in fact, are using new technologies to deliver with higher quality and efficiency.There are currently five radio programs in the Southern Cone area, locally produced, featuring varied content: music, entertainment, sports, politics and current affairs.Every program includes stories about Euskal Herria and a local chapter, about the Euskal Etxea of the city where it is established.Even though originally local radios could only be picked up via local stations, with a limited range, nowadays shows can be listened to through internet, which gives listeners the chance to contact with hosts in real time via social media from anywhere in the world.

The Lutheran World Federation’s experience is that closer cooperation between faith-based organisations of different faiths is both possible and beneficial.

Registered as the greatest humanitarian crisis today; drought, displacement and conflict continues to affect millions of people in the East and Horn of Africa. In this interview, Genevieve Lomax speaks with Natalie Dale, a member of the Christian Aid Humanitarian Team, who has recently returned from Dadaab refugee camp in North Eastern Kenya. Natalie considers the situation in the camps, the overcrowding people are experiencing, and the measures Christian Aid and ACT Alliance partner the Lutheran World Federation are taking to ensure the people’s immediate needs are met. For more information on our work in East Africa, and to donate to the appeal, visit: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/emergencies/current/east-africa-food-crisis-appeal/index.aspx - Many thanks for your much needed support.

The special Gifts of Hope project for 2008 will help provide the means for thousands of Southern Sudanese to return to their ancestral villages and to re-establish themselves in family homes.

Andre møte fra Frontiline 2008, lørdag 18. oktober 2008. Rev. Dr. Mwombeki fra The Lutheran World Federation taler.

Første møte fra Frontiline 2008, fredag 17. oktober 2008. Rev. Dr. Mwombeki fra The Lutheran World Federation taler.