From Sarah Henken
Original Post August 28, 2012
The Red UMAVIDA is an ecumenical network, comprised of three Bolivian denominations (Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches) and six community organizations from around the country. At the annual assembly earlier this year I was invited to share some thoughts about what it means to be ecumenical, and why it is important. Here’s a bit of what I said:
“Ecumenism” comes from the Greek word oikoumene and the root oikos, which means house. Other common words including ecology and economy have that same root, and they are all connected. “Ecumenism” refers to the whole inhabited earth, the home we share; ecology is the study of the way that home works, and economy refers to the rules of order we employ in our home.
The Red UMAVIDA is an ecumenical network, comprised of three Bolivian denominations (Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches) and six community organizations from around the country. At the annual assembly earlier this year I was invited to share some thoughts about what it means to be ecumenical, and why it is important. Here’s a bit of what I said:
“Ecumenism” comes from the Greek word oikoumene and the root oikos, which means house. Other common words including ecology and economy have that same root, and they are all connected. “Ecumenism” refers to the whole inhabited earth, the home we share; ecology is the study of the way that home works, and economy refers to the rules of order we employ in our home.
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