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Linda Vogt Turner
Linda Vogt Turner is a lay writer and educator living in Metro Vancouver Canada where she was born and educated. Linda has written extensively on faith and justice themes. She comp...view moreLinda Vogt Turner is a lay writer and educator living in Metro Vancouver Canada where she was born and educated. Linda has written extensively on faith and justice themes. She completed her Master of Arts Degree at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 2011. The title of her project is Mary Magdalene: Her image and relationship to Jesus. Full text is available online at http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12048.
Linda is a member of the United Church of Canada where she sings in the church choir, is a council member and lay presbytery delegate for Bethany-Newton United Church. She participated in the 6th Assembly of the World Council of Churches held in Vancouver during the summer of 1983.
In 1989, Linda travelled to Nicaragua. There, she witnessed the poverty and the political struggle of the Sandinista Government as Nicaragua recovered from the 1979 insurrection and the continued gorilla resistance of the Contras. Two years later, during the Gulf War, Linda participated in the 7th Assembly of the WCC in Canberra Australia. Inspired and responding to the 7th Assembly Call to Renew the Whole Creation, she returned home and enrolled in university to learn more about socio-economics, human systems, culture and politics.
Seventeen years later in June 2008, as an administrative assistant at SFU and a graduate student, Linda responded to the first ECOTHEE Call for Papers held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC) under the Auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarch to honour World Environment Day. Subsequently, Linda has been a co-organizer and moderator for the OAC-sponsored 2010 Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wild Plant Diversity conference, the ECOTHEE 11 and 13 conferences, the 2012 and 2014 Sustainable Alternatives to Poverty and Eco-Justice conferences in Crete and Madagascar. In 2012, she chaired the Inter-Ecothee Green the Scene Symposium held at Bethany-Newton United Church.
The Ecumenical Affair is about Linda’s love for the Gospel and her passion for Christian Unity. It is a true story full of passion and faith that asks the timeless question: Were Mary Magdalene and Jesus the Lovers Caught in Adultery?view less