Global Young Reformers Network
Being Lutheran: Lifting up voices of youth

Young theologians from Sweden, Poland, Canada and South Africa share perspectives on Lutheran identity 
Being Lutheran: Lifting up voices of youth
14 January 2021
Young theologians from Sweden, Poland, Canada and South Africa share perspectives on Lutheran identity 
Empowering youth to work for peace
21 November 2019
LWF “Peace Messengers” share their motivation and challenges (LWI) - For Juan Carlos Orantes Rodríguez, being a “peace messenger in El Salvador is not only about transmitting the message, but also helping people to find peace in themselves and provide ...
Germany: Towards more intergenerational justice
14 November 2019
Lutheran churches decide more youth participation in governing bodies  (LWI) - In future, more young people will have a seat in the governing bodies of the Lutheran churches in Germany. This was one of the decisions made at the General Synod of the United ...
Preparing young Palestinians to care for creation
3 October 2019
West Bank students learn how to preserve the region’s rich biodiversity (LWI) - With the 51,000 living species in her home region constituting around three percent of the global biodiversity, Lutheran educator Joan Ayyad wants young people in the West Bank ...
LWF and partners observe International Youth Day
12 August 2019
Youth “effectively contributing to the revival of churches and communities” (LWI) - The inclusion of young people on all levels is necessary to envision a future of justice and peace. This was the overall agreement shared as The Lutheran World Federation ...
The youngest ombudsperson in all Bavaria’s congregation councils
9 July 2019
Julian Appl: “My grandma was thrilled” (LWI) - The congregation council in Hohenstadt in the Hersbruck deanery has elected 18-year-old Julian Appl as its ombudsperson – very probably the youngest person in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria ...
Young Lutherans raise concerns at Council 2019
21 June 2019
Youth Council members call for action on climate change, gender justice and participation in church leadership (LWI) - Young Lutheran ordained and lay leaders from different parts of the globe gathered in Geneva for a Pre-Council meeting, voicing concerns ...
Church of Iceland offers equal opportunities for women
28 February 2019
Nordic church implementing LWF commitment to promote women and young people in leadership
Witnessing through dialogue, education and women’s empowerment in the Holy Land
11 January 2019
Voices from the Communion: Palestinian LWF Council member Sally Azar (LWI) - Please tell us something about yourself, and your church?
Climate finance: A moral challenge
21 December 2018
After listening to a plenary discussion at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Katowice, Poland, I realized not only the moral challenge of climate change, but also the moral challenge of our policies in addressing this dire issue.
Are we constructing or destructing the future?
20 December 2018
We, as faith communities, and as the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), are still very much hopeful of a better future, a future that’s safe and secure for all creation. We are currently in the context where, on a daily basis, we ask ourselves if we still ...
The down-to-earth truth: Troubling times on Lake Toba
20 December 2018
The idea of “climate change” rings ‘commonsensically’ familiar to subsistence farmers on Samosir Island of Lake Toba in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. The expression conveying climate change in the local language of Toba Batak—“tingki na ...
Proclaiming the Gospel of Christ by caring for our common home
19 December 2018
Proclaiming the Gospel of Christ by caring for our common home
A strong basis to implement climate agreement but the poor have been left behind
18 December 2018
LWF Youth Secretary says COP 24 outcome lacks commitment to the most marginalized (LWI) - Negotiations at the United Nations (UN) climate conference in Katowice, Poland, have resulted in guidelines that “provide a strong basis to implement the Paris Agreement, ...
What is our role as stewards of the Earth?
7 December 2018
Faith gives our everyday life depth that takes us beyond the material boundaries of the world. We live in relationship with a living God and we have ethical ground to stand on. Still, we are confined to the natural world of wonder and beauty, but also of uncertainty. ...
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