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Towards a Renewed Heart

The Emergence of Digital Ecumenical Prayer at the WCC
  • Mikie Roberts

    Rev. Dr. Mikie Roberts, Programme Executive for Spiritual Life and Faith and Order at the World Council of Churches, Geneva. He is an ordained Antiguan Moravian pastor from the Eastern West Indies Province.

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Published/Copyright: November 23, 2021
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Abstract

Heidi Campbell has identified three methods that were generally used by congregations in their response to how to engage in worship digitally due to the lockdown resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, the three models – transfer, translation, and transformation – are applied to the World Council of Churches and how it adapted its ecumenical prayer in March 2020. The paper highlights how digital worship has contributed to the renewal of prayer, which is at the very heart of the ecumenical movement.

Zusammenfassung

Heidi Campbell hat drei Methoden herausgearbeitet, die Kirchengemeinden in Reaktion auf die digitale Gestaltung von Gottesdiensten aufgrund des durch die COVID 19-Pandemie bedingten Lockdown anwenden. In diesem Artikel werden die drei Modelle – Transfer, Übersetzung und Transformation – auf den Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen und dessen Anpassung seiner ökumenischen Andachten im März 2020 bezogen. Der Artikel hebt hervor, wie digitaler Gottesdienst zur Erneuerung des Gebets beigetragen hat, das für die ökumenische Bewegung von zentraler Bedeutung ist.

About the author

Mikie Roberts

Rev. Dr. Mikie Roberts, Programme Executive for Spiritual Life and Faith and Order at the World Council of Churches, Geneva. He is an ordained Antiguan Moravian pastor from the Eastern West Indies Province.

Published Online: 2021-11-23
Published in Print: 2021-11-25

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