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Faith and Order launches an online professional journal
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Faith and Order prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary. |
NEW YORK - In what may be the first of its kind, the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches USA has launched an electronic journal for ecumenical professionals and other interested observers.
Called, "Speaking of Unity," the journal is edited by Dr. Ann K. Riggs, Associate General Secretary of the NCC for Faith and Order.
Articles on Faith and Order documents and issues are available both as html pages for easy access and reading, and as pdf files to make it easier to print hard copies.
The inaugural issue offers articles on "Meanings of Full Communion, the Essence of Life in the Body," by long-time Faith and Order scholar, Professor O.C. Edwards, Jr., an Episcopal priest; and "Reflections of a Newcomer," by Dr. Dale E. Luffman, who represents the Community of Christ on the NCC's Faith and Order Commission.
The first issue of "Speaking of Unity," designed by Dr. Keelan Downton of the NCC's Faith and Order staff, was developed as people of faith around the world were anticipating the World Council of Churches' ninth assembly Feb. 14-23, 2006, in Puerto Alegre, Brazil. The assembly will issue statements on faith and order and other topics that will be examined in future issues.
"The issue is centered upon the publication of an essay giving an account of the work of the Full Communion study group of the NCC Faith and Order Commission carried out during the four-year study period between 2000 and 2003," Riggs said in an editorial.
The Journal is launched at a time when Faith and Order prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary July 19-23, 2007. Future articles will highlight plans for a return to the commission's 1957 birthplace, Oberlin, Ohio, for a conference entitled, "On Being Christian Together: The Faith and Order Experience in the United States."
The National Council of Churches USA is composed of 35 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, historic African American and peace communions representing 45 million Christians in 100,000 local congregations in the United States.
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