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Bossey Ecumenical Institute invites applications for online course, expands repertoire

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey sets out to broaden its repertoire of courses in Ecumenical Studies to include a course in Ecumenical Studies now offered fully online.

Deadline for application is 1 March. The course runs 5 April – 12 June. 

Course details: Bossey online course in Ecumenical Studies

Apply now: Bossey online course in Ecumenical Studies  

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey sets out to broaden its repertoire of courses in Ecumenical Studies to include a course now offered fully online.

Applications are now open for the new online course, entitled “Together Towards Unity. Being Church in a Fragmented World.”

Starting in April 2021, the course aims to expand opportunities for students to explore the biblical, theological, ethical, societal, interreligious and missiological dimensions of ecumenism as envisioned at Bossey.

“The Ecumenical Institute is unique in how it has taught and promoted ecumenical encounter for the past 75 years,” reflects Ecumenical Institute dean Rev. Fr Dr Lawrence Iwuamadi.

“This new online course builds on the long established Ecumenical Studies courses at Bossey in addressing the current changing dynamics and configurations of ecumenism through a new medium,” Iwuamadi adds, noting an online course as one way to make Ecumenical Studies accessible during a time marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rev. Dr Simone Sinn, vice dean and professor at Bossey continues: “This course offers succinct introductions into the classic dimensions of ecumenical studies, guiding students to explore ecumenical relations in their local contexts, share about them in a global cohort of students and deepen their understanding through theological study.

“Strengthening the students’ agency and their capacity for theological discernment is vital in this study program,” Sinn says. 

Batahnii Wilson of Navajo Nations in action, providing clean water to his community. Photo: Bathanii Wilson

Seven Weeks for Water 2021,

Week 1: "The rainbow colour of the pilgrimage of water justice in North America", by Michele Roberts

Text: 1 Corinthians 12:13 

"We were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network invites you to use the season of Lent to reflect on God’s gift of water. Since 2008, the WCC – through its “Seven Weeks for Water” campaign – has been providing weekly theological reflections and other resources on water for the seven weeks of Lent and for World Water Day on 22 March (which always falls during the Lenten period). 

The 1st reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2021 of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network is written by Michele Roberts*, from the Environmental Justice Health Alliance. In this reflection, the author, based on several instances of large scale water contamination in many cities in the USA, comes to a conclusion that lack of access to clean water in the country is a result of systemic racism.   

For more information on the "Seven Weeks for Water" campaign visit the WWC EWN website https://www.oikoumene.org/what-we-do/ecumenical-water-network#seven-weeks-for-water