Messages of urgency brought to “COVID & Beyond” process
The third “circle” of the World Communion of Reformed Churches’ (WCRC) “COVID & Beyond” discernment process concluded with an online meeting on Wednesday, 4 August. “We are gathering all that we have heard over the last two months, placing it before this group, and attempting to discern forward particularly in terms of what we as […]
Global faith and humanitarian leaders urge end to vaccine nationalism
Worldwide Christian and other faith leaders have joined with humanitarian groups urging global leaders to ensure equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines around the world, stating that they must choose between “vaccine nationalism or human solidarity.” The joint Declaration is signed by Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders, as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for […]
First COVID & Beyond circle sets framework
The “Discerning Circle” of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC)’s “What Does God Require of Us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond” process set a framework for continuing work. This initial circle concluded on Wednesday, 10 March, with a virtual meeting, reviewing the input from previous sessions and providing […]
Sharing session focuses on Europe and global racisms
The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC)’s “COVID & Beyond” discernment process continues with its next “sharing circle” on Wednesday, 24 February, at 15:00 (CET). The idea of the sharing circle is to express areas of particular urgency in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the injustices it exposes and to generate ideas how […]
COVID & Beyond process focuses on discernment
The “Discerning Circle” of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC)’s “What does God Require of Us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond” process will begin with a livestreamed session on Wednesday, 27 January, beginning at 15:00 (Central European Time). The process began in December with hundreds of participants gathering […]
WCRC begins extensive discernment process on COVID-19 pandemic
“What does God Require of Us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in an Age of COVID-19 and Beyond,” the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC)’s Communion-wide discernment process, began with a global online gathering and a call to prophetic action. “We gather today to engage in thinking together, ‘What does the Lord require of us?’ We […]
WCRC members invited to join discernment process
On 9 December the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) will launch an extensive discernment process, “What does God require of us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond.” This year-long Communion-wide undertaking will build toward a face-to-face meeting in late 2021 and culminate in the WCRC collectively confessing a God […]
Churches express solidarity with people of Zimbabwe
In response to the situation in Zimbabwe, the World Communion of Reformed Churches, World Council of Churches, Lutheran World Federation, and World Methodist Council issued a pastoral letter to the people and churches in Zimbabwe. The letter was written in response to the laments of sisters and brothers in Zimbabwe and expressed “a deep concern […]
WCRC developing response to pandemic
A global consultation began a process for the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) to discern how the Communion can “provide for a prophetic theological response” to the COVD-19 pandemic and to prepare the Communion to move towards becoming a confessing church in terms of the “global apartheid” that the pandemic has unveiled. “COVID-19 has […]
Pandemic shifts working styles of WCRC and its members
“He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” —Micah 6:8 (NRSV) In this unprecedented situation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) holds to its commitments as a global Koinonia marked […]