World Council of Churches Document Center
Free, downloadable copies of many of the WCC's policies, addresses, and meeting minutes. A wealth of primary source material!
National Council of Churches
NCC's website is not particularly useful. Policy statements can be found on the "Common Witness" page. If you are interested in visiting the official archives of the NCC, you can do so in Philadelphia, as it's hosted by the National Archives of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Please check their website for information on using the archives.
Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism (requires free registration)
GlobeTheoLib is a vast resource on ecumenism and ethics, including over 2,000,000 full-text items. This digital library is created and maintained by the World Council of Churches. It contains both scholarly material as well as material uploaded by researchers, as well as news items, etc.
US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Ecumenical Documents and News Releases from the Catholic Church in the US.
"Martin Luther in the Ecumenical Movement," by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. 2016.
While links here go to the library catalog, you can use these phrases in any of the library's many databases.
"Relation with other churches"
"Church Unity"
"[person] and Ecumenism"
e.g.: "Zwingli and Ecumenism"
"[denomination] and other churches"
"Christian Unity Movements"
"Ecumenical movement"
"WCC" or "NCC"
World Council of Churches
National Council of Churches
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Home Missionary Society
BV 186
Ecumenical Worship
BX 1 to BX 9.5
Global Ecumenism (WCC, etc.)
BX 1779 to BX 1788
Catholic Church and ecumenism
BX5925 to 5928
Episcopal church and ecumenism
BX8063
Lutherans and ecumenism
BX8329
Methodists and ecumenism
BX9416
Puritans and other churches
BX9419
"Reformed and Calvinist" and other churches
The land on which United Lutheran Seminary sits, and which stretches between its two campuses, is tribal land, inhabited originally by the Lenni Lenape, the Susquehannock, and the Seneca tribes. We honor those original caretakers of this land, and we pay respect to the original inhabitants of what we now call Pennsylvania. Acknowledging this history is consistent with the seminary’s commitment to welcome and equity, which calls us in Christ to repentance, reconciliation, and wholeness. Even though the sad history of colonization cannot be undone, this land acknowledgement is one small way for us to remember what happened here, to understand our part in this story, and to develop a more healthy relationship with the land and its original inhabitants.
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