Coordinator of International Ecumenical Peace Convocation to Visit US
Dr. Geiko Muller-Fahrenholz
Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz - an independent writer, researcher, theologian, and ecumenical consultant - is currently making preparations on behalf of the WCC for an International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC), a culminating event of the Decade to Overcome Violence, slated for 2011. Dr. Müller-Fahrenholz will visit Washington, New York, Pittsburgh, and Boston this March, garnering ideas for the IEPC and engaging the US churches in dialogue about the state of the global ecumenical peace movement.
Dr. Müller-Fahrenholz is the author of the recently published America’s Battle for God: A European Christian Looks at Civil Religion. Originally from Germany, he has served in the World Council of Churches, worked as director of the Protestant Academy of the Nordelbische Lutheran Church, and taught at two universities in Costa Rica.
The US Conference for the WCC’s Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) Committee plans to meet with Dr. Müller-Fahrenholz while he is in Washington. In New York, he will meet with WCC member church representatives and representatives of other ecumenical organizations. WCC staff in the US will welcome him and assist with some of the logistics of his visit.
Other books by Dr. Müller-Fahrenholz include God’s Spirit: Transforming a World in Crisis and The Art of Forgiveness: Theological Reflections on Healing and Reconciliation.
To learn more about the WCC's Decade to Overcome Violence initiative or the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation, visit www.overcomingviolence.org.
