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Rev. Charlotte Horn, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Württemberg. Photo: LWF/A. Hillert

Giving thanks in all circumstances
By
Rev. Charlotte Horn

Theology
Youth
Blog
16 Apr 2025
Prof. Dirk Lange, Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Relations, meets Pope Francis with other ecumenical delegates during the Synod. Photo: Vatican Media

A historic moment: synodality in action
By
Rev. Prof. Dr Dirk Lange

Unity
Theology
Blog
29 Oct 2024
Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Relations Dirk Lange. Photo: CatholicPressPhoto/A. Giuliani

Pathways and places of encounter
By
Rev. Prof. Dr Dirk Lange

Unity
Theology
Blog
22 Oct 2024
. Photo: CatholicPressPhoto/A. Giuliani

Reflections on a relational church
By
Rev. Prof. Dr Dirk Lange

Unity
Theology
Blog
15 Oct 2024
LWF assistant general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Dirk Lange presides as participants in a meeting of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) council, June 2024. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

The risk of listening and discerning
By
Rev. Prof. Dr Dirk Lange

Unity
Blog
08 Oct 2024
Volunteers at a reception center for people displaced from the front line, near Kharkiv. Photo: LWF/ Anatolyi Nazarenko

Trenches, flowers and hope in Ukraine
By
Cornelia Kästner-Meyer

Humanitarian
Communion
Blog
15 Jul 2024
Participants, with Hansbauer front row, second from left, at the 2023 summer course of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg. Photo: Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg

Strasbourg: searching for a common vocabulary
By
Mr. Simon Hansbauer

Theology
Blog
28 Aug 2023
      Helena Funk from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony at the GEM School for an Economy of Life in Berlin. Photo: LWF/S. Kit

Challenging the ‘Mushroom Man’ economic model
By
Ms. Helena Funk

Theology
Climate
Blog
14 Jul 2022
Installation service and reception for LWF General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt, in the chapel and lobby of the Ecumenical Center, Geneva (Switzerland), 17 November 2021. Photo: LWF/M. Renaux

Rev. Anne Burghardt: the first 100 days
By
Rev. Anne Burghardt, LWF General Secretary

Theology
Governance
Communion
Blog
16 Feb 2022
LWF General Secretary, Rev. Dr Martin Junge. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

A year of resilience and hope amidst deep suffering
By
Rev. Dr Martin Junge

Communion
Churches
Justice
Blog
31 Mar 2021
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Masculinity and the ministry of encouragement
By
Rev. Dr Chad Rimmer

Theology
Gender
Blog
07 Dec 2020
Jubilee for the Earth is the theme for the 2020 Season of Creation. Photo: Unsplash/David Köhler

The good management of God’s gifts
By
Therese Nocke, head of the Opérationelle Projet Environnement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon

Unity
Theology
Climate
Blog
06 Oct 2020

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