Having blogged last week about Ulf and Birgitta Ekman’s book, The Great Discovery: Our Journey into the Catholic Church, I was keen to ask them a few questions. Ulf, as I related in my earlier blog, had been the founder and pastor of Word of Life, a worldwide Pentecostal church of over 200,000 members. What was his and Birgitta’s relationship with Word of Life now that they are Catholics?
Ulf explains that Word of Life “is a large network, but if we are talking about friends and co-workers in Uppsala where I was the pastor, we have succeeded in maintaining a good relationship with many of them. With others, it is polite but not so warm and in yet other cases our relationships are still rather frosty.” He adds emphatically, “However, we do believe in the importance of pursuing a loving unity in Spirit and truth.”
