Bridgefolk co-chairs Marlene Kropf and Abbot John Klassen were recently interviewed for an Australian radio show discussing modern ecumenism. The interview will air this weekend and soon be available online.
A preview from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
ABC Radio National – Encounter 20 February 2011
Convergences: ecumenical stories
What has happened to ecumenism, since the early enthusiasm of the sixties and seventies? The stories of convergence told in this Encounter tell of points of unity within diversity.
In the great ecumenical excitement of the 1960s, Rev Dr Norman Young (once Methodist and now Uniting Church) and Fr Gerald O’Collins SJ (Catholic priest and theologian) became friends. Their ideas converged on the importance of ecumenism – and on the figure of Jesus
Political scientist Scott Waalkes comes from a Calvinist background – but he has taken up with the Catholic tradition’s use of the liturgical calendar and with theology, in order to critique globalisation.
And in Minnesota, Mennonites (Anabaptists) meet up with Benedictine monks.