Thursday, February 16, 2006
Current events at the WCC
There are going to be daily postings of the webcasts of the thematic plenary meetings at the WCC.
In addition, if you want to know what's just going on in general, you can check out the website for the WCC 9th General Assembly by clicking here.
For the webscast for Wed. February 15, if you watch the session on the General Secretary's report, about an hour and five minutes into it, I am the third person to respond to the General Secretary. I questioned what he didn't say about Indigenous issues, and asked how they could take Indigenous concerns for prommatic planning seriously when they had moved the desk of the Indigenous program to Bolivia in 2003. Decentralization is fine in theory - Bolivia can communicate with Geneva - but how can they have input into the WCC's work in a holistic way and make sure the Indigenous voice is heard. "Indigenous concerns" are not an objective thing. We need to make sure that other WCC works aren't ignorant of or detrimental to the lives of the world's indigenous peoples.
Finally - on Feb. 21, I will be speaking on the theme of the Assembly - "God in your Grace, Transform the World." It will be a very different speech than what I proposed here. The entire session will be the last webcast of the thematic plenaries - so watch for it on the website.
OK - off to work!
In addition, if you want to know what's just going on in general, you can check out the website for the WCC 9th General Assembly by clicking here.
For the webscast for Wed. February 15, if you watch the session on the General Secretary's report, about an hour and five minutes into it, I am the third person to respond to the General Secretary. I questioned what he didn't say about Indigenous issues, and asked how they could take Indigenous concerns for prommatic planning seriously when they had moved the desk of the Indigenous program to Bolivia in 2003. Decentralization is fine in theory - Bolivia can communicate with Geneva - but how can they have input into the WCC's work in a holistic way and make sure the Indigenous voice is heard. "Indigenous concerns" are not an objective thing. We need to make sure that other WCC works aren't ignorant of or detrimental to the lives of the world's indigenous peoples.
Finally - on Feb. 21, I will be speaking on the theme of the Assembly - "God in your Grace, Transform the World." It will be a very different speech than what I proposed here. The entire session will be the last webcast of the thematic plenaries - so watch for it on the website.
OK - off to work!
