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LIFE IS A PROCESS

LIFE IS A PROCESS When you get up, say "WOH" because you are still alive. When you hear your alarm ringing in the morning, say "WOH, THANK YOU GOD" you are still alive to hear your alarm. If you have a chance to prepare you bed for the night to rest, say "WOH" you have been gifted a day. When people grill and critique you say "WOH" you are very important and that's is why they have taken lot of time to critique you. At times we take LIFE FOR GRANTED. Every minute is a gift, and you can't complain on anything that is a gift. May you live a WOH WOH life..... 

TRIBAL UNDERSTANDING OF PRIESTHOOD

TRIBAL UNDERSTANDING OF PRIESTHOOD: TOWARDS MUTUAL ENRICHMENT BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND INDIGENOUS CULTURE                                                               Fr Paul Lelen Haokip paulhowkeep@yahoo.co.in Abstract Christifying indigenous culture is preserving the best and modifying what needs to be changed. While Western epistemology may promote the thinking subject supreme over the known object, Asian approach is guided by the principle of inter-connectedness and not by the principle of contradiction and exclusiveness. We need dialogue between indigenous cultural wisdom and Christianity, a characteristic of being church in Asia. Indigenous priesthood (Thempu) of...

Indigenous Resources in India and World Christianity

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One-Day Seminar on Indigenous Resources in India and W orld Christianity (Indigenous Theology in India) Organized by the Department of Theology & Ethics Union Biblical Seminary , 29th September , 2018 9am to 1.30pm Conc e pt N ot e The shift of gravity of Christian presence from the Global North to the Global South necessitates fresh articulation and expressions of Christian faith in the Global South for both effective Christian living and the enrichment of the understanding of W orld Christianity . Commendable work has already been done in Africa, Latin America, and Asia including Dalit theology in India but no much work has been done in tribal context despite their representation in Indian Christianity . Some of the major concerns includes, finding theological basis for contextual theology; sources and methods of doing theology with indigenous resources, and; connecting local theo...