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Message from North American Regional Secretary Luciano Kovacs.

Itang Young has been hired as the newly hired SCM-USA organizer. Young left corporate America to pursue a divine calling, and has worked in settings such as the National Council of Churches, the United Nations, PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly, and we so so excited she will now be working with the SCM-USA! Itang will be primarily responsible to plan the national SCM-USA Leadership Training Program to be held in April 2013, and she will facilitate the connection of existing, new and forming SCM-USA chapters to the national movement. Read more about Itang in this article...

The “Glo-cal”: Approaching global problems with local solutions. WSCF NA provides the space to be trained as leaders to engage in critical thinking on social issues and to reflect theologically from a contextual perspective while affirming liberative and justice-affirming theologies. The ecumenical community and SCMs around the world have been playing an important role in this process and are very well poised to challenge the spiritual and ethical crisis global capitalism presents to local communities and to the whole world by linking new eco-theologies to an economy of life for the whole planet.

The Latin America and Caribbean and the North American Regions of the WSCF held a joined program on eco-justice called Students on an Encounter for Solidarity and Justice in Cuba on April 1-8, 2012. One of the objectives was a strengthened partnership in their work for a vibrant ecumenical movement committed to working towards social transformation, liberation, and justice for all peoples and the earth.
Participants challenged the anthropocentric conception of dominion in its relationship with the environment and ecology...