The Society welcomes members from many different churches and backgrounds, clergy and lay, who are committed to the unity of the Church of Christ, studying its nature and purpose, promoting understanding and co-operation and practising the prayer of Jesus to his Father on the night before he died 'that they all may be one, that the world may believe.......'

• to advance the Christian Ecumenical Movement and the unity of humanity in Christ
• to foster receptive ecumenism and ecumenical learning between the different traditions of the Churches
• to bring together practical and theological experience in social, international and interfaith fields
• to enable theological exploration with regard to Christianity's divisions, ecclesiology, the reconciliation of the Churches and the visible unity of Christians
• to arrange occasions for persons of different generations, races and theological convictions to meet, exchange news and ideas, debate, work and pray together on significant study projects

The Society is glad to work in collaboration with study institutes, ecumenical organisations and groups of churches at local, national and international levels.

The Society organises seminars, day conferences and other events that explore current issues and challenges within the Christian Ecumenical Movement that can provide appropriate historical and theological awareness, as well as stimulating imaginative and creative responses to today's perplexities.

2009 Programme

• The Christian Debt to Darwin: Acknowledging God's Entire Creation, with Simon Conway Morris and Denis Alexander
• Receptive Ecumenism & Ecclesial Learning - Durham Conference
• Must the Ecumenical Movement Change Course for the 21st Century? - Dr Martin Conway
• 1509-1564: Calvin Colloquium

Receptive Ecumenism
See also our 3 November 2007 Day Conference on Receptive Ecumenism: the Call to Ecumenical Learning, for new papers from David Carter, Kallistos Ware and Paul Fiddes.

May 2009 Newsletter
Download our recent newsletter here.

One in Christ
The twice yearly Catholic review for Church Unity - further details and how to subscribe can be found on the One in Christ website.