Module 8: Diakonia – faith and serving your neighbor

This nine-module course in Lutheran theology was developed by an international working group of theologians in conjunction with LWF’s Department for Theology, Mission and Justice. Each module includes a video lecture, guided readings and discussion questions to guide group reflections. Target audience: The course is aimed at undergraduate students, and pastors or church workers who are interested in reflecting on different aspects of Lutheran theology.

Module 8: The Real Presence: on virtuality and digital church in times of COVID-19.

Introduction: In this course, we explore themes that emerged from a 2019 consultation in Addis Ababa on Lutheran identities, and explore the creative, vibrant, life-giving diversity of what it means to be Lutheran today in different contexts around the LWF Communion. Each module includes a video of a webinar that explores the topic. Speakers present each topic, and question and answers follow.

Module 9: Liberty and Lutheranism

Introduction: In this course, we explore themes that emerged from a 2019 consultation in Addis Ababa on Lutheran identities, and explore the creative, vibrant, life-giving diversity of what it means to be Lutheran today in different contexts around the LWF Communion. Each module includes a video of a webinar that explores the topic. Speakers present each topic, and question and answers follow.

Module 9: Lutheran Theology and Interreligious Dialogue

This nine-module course in Lutheran theology was developed by an international working group of theologians in conjunction with LWF’s Department for Theology, Mission and Justice. Each module includes a video lecture, guided readings and discussion questions to guide group reflections. Target audience: The course is aimed at undergraduate students, and pastors or church workers who are interested in reflecting on different aspects of Lutheran theology.

Part 01 : Bible study on Joel: How do we manage times of crisis?

It is the time of Lent, a liturgical space that invites us to think on the times we are living. In this first presentation of the 2021 Bible Studies, Rev. Angela Trejo Haager, one of the Coordinators of the Women and Gender Justice Network of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and pastor of the Mexican Lutheran Church (ILM). The approach to the book of Joel will help us to think among ourselves how we are managing this time of crisis, from our homes and in the midst of fears and uncertainties.

Part 02 : Bible study 1 Chronicles 7, 20 - 24: "From misfortune to the opportunity to improve one's life".

The Women and Gender Justice Network presented this week its Bible study 26, in which the Rev. and professor Juliana Alonso, from the "With a Gender Perspective SEMLA" programme at Augsburg Lutheran Seminary in Mexico, develops an analysis of 1 Chronicles 7, 20 - 24 visualising the way in which Seerah manages to restore hope to her family and her immediate circle, overcoming a patriarchal context and family depression, a product of tragedy and loss. In this way, it can be a mirror in which we can look at the contexts we live in today.

Part 03: Violence Against Women Month Bible Study: A Reading from Psalm 129

The Network of this November, the LWF Latin American and Caribbean Women and Gender Justice Network will be providing reflections on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is celebrated on the 25th of this month. For this reason, the biblical text is being used as a resource to help prevent such violence.

Part 04 :Bible Study for the month of the elimination of violence against women: Feminist reading of Psalm 55

This November, the LWF Network of Women and Gender Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean will be providing reflections on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is celebrated on the 25th of this month. Therefore, from the biblical text they are providing resources to help prevent this violence.

Part 05 : Special Bible Study Reformation month: Argula von Grumbach

In the month of the 503rd anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the Women and Gender Justice Network presents a weekly Bible study. In this case, the theology student of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB) Samira Rossmann Ramlow at the Superior School of Theology (EST) and the master student Josiane Velten, Gender and Religion Program, Faculdad EST/IECLB developed a work entitled "We confess our faith in Christ".