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CIBL Voices
The Newsletter of the Conference of International Black Lutherans - US
Beginning with in the Summer of 2009, the Conference of
Interantional Black Lutherans offers a quarterly newsletter. With
interviews, book reviews and highlights and introducations of online courses,
we hope to share the work of scholars of African Descent in the Lutheran Tribe
with the supportive community and other communitis throughout the
world. --CIBL NEWS
Conference Papers and Pictures
Conference Papers from the 1st CIBL Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe
can be found in the book Theology and the Black Experience, which is still
available from Fortress Press. The keeper of the web site has not been able
to find any pictures from that event. If you have pictures that can be
scanned and put into electronic form, please contact the web scribe.
Papers from the 2nd CIBL conference in Bulawayo,
Zimbabwe, the 3rd
conference at Wittenberg, Germany, and the 4th conference in São Leopoldo, Brazil are being collected to add
to this collection. Some pictures are available for these past events.
Special Project
In recent years a number of the elders who were
formative in the development of African Descent congregations in the churches
that make up the ELCA have departed this life. Richard Stewart is looking
for volunteers to assist min with a continuing project of capturing video taped
interviews of those who remain with us. If you have any interest in
assisting in this capturing of our history please contact Prof. Stewart at the AALA Assembly or
at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
CIBL-US NEWSLETTER
Welcome to the inaugural issue of CIBL Voices, the e-journal and newsletter of the Conference of International Black Lutherans. Targeted towardrostered leaders and interested laity of color in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), it intends to be a place for theological reflection in which scholars address ideas, issues, and concerns of persons of color in the church catholic. (News)
