WCC launches webinar series on Theology of Companionship

WCC launches webinar series on Theology of Companionship

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Thu, 08/13/2026 - 14:08

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will host a webinar series, starting in September, exploring the Theology of Companionship: a way of walking together with mutuality, shared vulnerability, and accountable relationships—even across unequal power.

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The five-part series will show how the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity appears —through a lens of companionship— as a theological orientation and an ecclesial practice.

Participants will be invited to explore companionship as a deep yet understandable journey from theological foundations to practical implementation. The series will move through five themes: foundations, method, ethics, context, and implementation.

The opening session, “Why Companionship Now? Biblical and Ecumenical Foundations,” will be led on 9 September by Prof. Dr Fernando Enns, from the Church Association of Mennonite Congregations in Germany. Subsequent sessions will examine companionship as a pilgrimage practice; the ethical challenges of power and asymmetry;…