http://www.wfn.org/ National Council of the Churches USA en-us http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00168.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:55:04 -0400 April 22, 2008, Washington - Using Earth Day resources developed by the National Council of Churches, hundreds of congregations and communities around the country are celebrating Earth Day this year, recognizing their faithful call to protect Gods creation. From sermons on climate change to toxic audits, people of faith around the country are finding ways to further their understanding of and involvement in creation care. http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00166.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:45:05 -0400 New York, April 9, 2008 =96 Symbols + Sanctity: the Objects of Religion, a CBS interfaith religion special produced with the cooperation of the National Council of Churches (NCC), The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, a consortium of Jewish organizations and The Islamic Society of North America, will be broadcast Sunday, April 27, on the CBS Television Network. Check your local station for exact time. http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00155.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:10:11 -0400 As a proactive response to the heightened interest surrounding Trinity UCC in Chicago, national and regional UCC leaders, joined by the National Council of Churches, today called for a nationwide sacred conversation about race in the United States. At a press conference held at Trinity UCC on the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.s last sermon, the Rev. John H. Thomas, the UCCs general minister and president; the Rev. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary of the National Council of Churches; and the Rev. Otis Moss III, pastor of Chicagos Trinity UCC, called UCC pastors, congrega http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00135.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:35:04 -0400 email list of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00122.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:55:05 -0400 New York, April 17, 2008 - Krister Stendahl, a tireless ecumenist who was dean and a member of the faculty of Harvard Divinity School and a former bishop of Stockholm, Sweden, died April 15 in Boston. He was 86. Harvard Divinity School immediately issued a statement expressing immense sadness and immense thankfulness for a singular life wonderfully well lived. http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00089.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:25:04 -0400 New York, April 14, 2008 - When representatives from vastly different Christian traditions discuss the content of church school lessons, it is no small miracle that they usually agree. You dont need a smidgeon of church history to know it was not always so. Christians were burning each other at the stake so recently you can almost smell the acrid odor in our church yards. http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00087.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:50:05 -0400 New York, April 14, 2008 When representatives from vastly different Christian traditions discuss the content of church school lessons, it is no small miracle that they usually agree. You dont need a smidgeon of church history to know it was not always so. Christians were burning each other at the stake so recently you can almost smell the acrid odor in our church yards.