Ecumenical unity
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Father Paul Wattson and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
by Rev. Nathaniel Pierce The Life of Father Paul Wattson Lewis Thomas Wattson was born on January 18, 1863, in Millington, MD, the son of the Rev. Joseph Newton Wattson, Rector of St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, Massey, and Mary Electa Gregory Wattson. After graduating from college he attended the General Theological Seminary in New York.…
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Introduction to the 2021 Theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
This is a short podcast from our founder Alexei Laushkin on next year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Alexei also does faith and formation work where he produces a regular podcast on faith formation that touch on ecumenical themes. This podcast covers the origins of the Week of Prayer of Christian Unity (context article…
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Living with Difference Closer to Home
by Alexei Laushkin How does God ask us to handle differences in how we relate to one another in the body of Christ? Many Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal denominations feel painful tension when their desires for unity run up against seemingly irreconcilable differences. This tension leads to some difficult, but important questions. Questions like,…
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Reconciliation: The Cruciform Cost of Relational Peace-Making
An Object Lesson from the Jacob and Esau Story Grace is costly. It may accrue to us freely, but it cost Jesus dearly. Love is costly, as is peace-making reconciliation. It’s not enough to understand these things as abstractions. We must grow in grace-ness (graciousness) toward others—even those with whom we may disagree or who may…
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Living with Difference Closer to Home
by Alexei Laushkin How does God ask us to handle differences in how we relate to one another in the body of Christ? Many Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal denominations feel painful tension when their desires for unity run up against seemingly irreconcilable differences. This tension leads to some difficult, but important questions. Questions like,…
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Can We Learn to Accept Difference?
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who…
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KMS Facilitates Day Long Pastors Training
In mid April, Kingdom Mission Society (KMS) helped to facilitate a day long pastors and lay leaders training as part of the National Workshop on Christian Unity (NWCU). As the Evangelical and Pentecostal presence at the workshop has grown, KMS has helped to fill in a coordinating role for what that presence could look like.…
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Introducing KMS Fellow Hunter Brown
Hunter Brown has joined KMS as a KMS fellow with a focus on helping assemble and administrate a forthcoming dialogue on baptism between Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Roman Catholics. Hunter works full time as the head men’s and women’s golf coach at Goucher College in Towson, MD. Additionally, he is a part-time masters of theology student at St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute…
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Father Paul Wattson and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
by Rev. Nathaniel Pierce The Life of Father Paul Wattson Lewis Thomas Wattson was born on January 18, 1863, in Millington, MD, the son of the Rev. Joseph Newton Wattson, Rector of St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, Massey, and Mary Electa Gregory Wattson. After graduating from college he attended the General Theological Seminary in New York.…
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The Sin of Christian Disunity
by Alexei Laushkin In the Fall of 2017, KMS participated in and hosted various events to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. Many of these events used the series This Changed Everything to help be an anchor for discussion. As an aside, the series includes Bishop Robert Barron of Word on Fire, Michael Horton of the White Horse Inn and several others. There are few…