Poetic ecumenism

In his first sermon as general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Olav Fykse Tveit spoke of the need to enter into the depths of this world and its suffering and divisions - and together, to be the voice calling to newness of life. But he also quoted a poem by a Norwegian poet, Olav H. Hauge, expressing the dream of love, love for the life we have, love for the world we live in, today and tomorrow: