Arrived in Sri Lanka today. Immediately whisked off to have tea with one of the country's Buddhist leaders. Five of us from three continents, two religions, three denominations. A shared passion to explore ideas, time to listen and rich experience were part of the recipe but more ingredients were probably involved. Some great Methodist/Buddhist work has seen young people from the two sides of the divide learning, eating and dancing together, people who would never have talked to each other otherwise. This sort of education is vital if peace is to be built after 20 years of civil war. Tomorrow is a six hour drive to see the hard reality that is the fruit of such a grim conflict. The churches are best placed to do much of the work, we will be looking at how. Steve
Monday 14.1
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