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16-June-1998 
GA98052 
 
    "Imagine Unity in Christ," Says Ecumenical Breakfast Speaker 
 
    by Julian Shipp 
 
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--Reminding her audience to use their imaginations as they 
work toward unity in Christ, Dr. Cynthia M. Campbell, president of 
McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, was guest speaker during the 
Ecumenical Breakfast June 17. 
    "To a very big extent, we dream our world into being," Campbell said. 
"When you see your dreams all around you, it is a miracle." 
    Campbell said the Ecumenical Decade With Women has done much to advance 
ecumenism, including raising issues of justice and health before the 
religious and secular communities and allowing the voices of  women and 
others who have long been silenced voices, to be heard in various cultures 
and countries. Campbell said the greatest challenge of Christians in the 
next decade will be figuring out how to give their gifts to "a world caught 
up in the politics of identity and separateness." 
    "The ecumenical movement at its best, affirms that unity does not 
demand uniformity and yet affirms that unity is something that exists 
before God and therefore has a life, or ground out of which it grows,"she 
said. 
    Campbell's appearance marked the fourth gathering sponsored by the 
Ecumenical Staff Team of the Office of the General Assembly. 

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