On Sun, December 7, 10 AM, Chaplain James Gibbons Walker will present a sermon entitled “The Barmen Declaration” for the Unitarian Universalists of the Chester River, 914 Gateway Dr., Chestertown. In 1934, representatives of the Lutheran, Reformed and Evangelical United denominations met in Barmen, Germany. They met to oppose the so-called German Christians, a Nazi supported group that sought to reinterpret Christianity as an Aryan religion. The statement they produced, the Barmen Declaration, reaffirmed that the German Church was not an “organ of the State” and that the concept of State control over the Church was doctrinally false. Now, eighty years later, James Gibbons Walker invites reflection on the relationship between faith and society in an increasingly pluralistic and contentious USA.
Following a career as a psychiatric social worker, James Gibbons Walker has engaged in theological education at the Ecumenical Institute of Theology of St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, and in service to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Southern Maryland as their chaplain. James received a Master of Arts in Theology degree from the E.I. in May, 2014.
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