# Roundup: Water and peace, plant and mission, worship and participation, Paul Simon

> Conflicts over water threaten peace in the world, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, told a gathering in Germany on the banks of the River Danube to mark the end of the WCC’s Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV).

5 July 2011 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/roundup-water-and-peace-plant-and-mission-worship-and-participation-paul-simon/

## [Water conflicts pose threat to global peace](https://www.oikoumene.org/en/news/news-management/eng/a/article/1634/water-conflicts-pose-thre.html)

Conflicts over water threaten peace in the world, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, told a gathering in Germany on the banks of the River Danube to mark the end of the WCC’s Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV).

## [English Methodists with too many buildings](https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2011/07/04/coventry-methodist-churches-may-be-sold-off-92746-28988921/)

“We are at our best when we regard our ‘plant’ as resources for God’s mission rather than an inheritance to be preserved at all costs like the family silver.”

## [Throw out dry tradition](https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/04/anglicans-american-episcopal-church)

Churches should rip up the pews and encourage real participation, and make the act of worship again.

## [‘So Beautiful or So What’ … so Christian?](https://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/godfactor/so_beautiful_of_so_what_..._so_christian/)

*So Beautiful or So What*, which was released in April to wide critical acclaim, is one of the most beautiful, gracefully powerful and memorable collections of spiritual musical musings in recent memory.