' Thomas Oden, executive editor of Christianity Today, wants the liberal World Council of Churches to
"receive" the World Evangelical Alliance as an "equal partner" (or vice versa). He says: "Some in the WEA would love to see [it] lurch in more liberal directions in environmental and government regulatory policy, while some in the WCC would like to see more biblical and classical Christian teaching." The Global Christian Forum appears to look beyond the WCC to include evangelicals, Pentecostals, Roman Catholics and the Orthodox (8/5 CT). Oden says: "Oddly, there is more conversation between evangelicals and Catholics than between liberal and evangelical Protestants." He laments the divisions that ecumenism has caused and continues to reinforce. http://cnview.com