Praying, Believing, Doing:
An Ecumenism of Liturgy and Life
Rev. Dr. Karen Westerfield Tucker
presenter
Please join us November 30 & December 1, 2018
First United Methodist Church, Charlottesville, VA
We open our program with a Prayer for Peace Gathering
Market Street Park at 6pm
(across from First United Methodist Church)
Conference Overview
Points of Connection (Session 1)
Christian communities have long understood that practices of worship and devotion shape their faith and that
what they believe guides the content of their prayer.
Praying and believing each influences what a community
does—how it acts toward the neighbor and the
world—and actions affect what is prayed and believed.
Can the interplay of these components—praying, believing,
doing—speak to the project of reconciliation, not
only of ecumenical relations, but also to social divisions
and social concern?
Worship Together and Apart (Session 2)
Multilateral and bilateral ecumenical documents have
proliferated since the 1960s, but often these texts do
not reach the hands of pastors and congregations.
What is the place of worship as a mediator of ecumenical
engagement? How does what we pray and how we
pray indicate where we are in the ecumenical process?
Singing in Common (Session 3)
Evidence of the intentional sharing of congregational
song across ecclesiastical boundaries exists from the
sixteenth century onward, which can lead to the claim
that singing in common is the “first” form of ecumenism.
What is the significance of such sharing today,
especially with the proliferation of hymn and song texts
that speak of justice, reconciliation, and peace?