What are you doing in Europe this summer?
So my dear friend Melody asks:
Anyway, in regards to my summer, here's an answer I gave to my community group: click here. Here's a bit more if you are curious:
I'm going to this place called Caux, which is near Geneva. It's this Belle Epoque hotel converted into an international place for moral and spiritual reconciliation...by moral and spiritual reconciliation, I think they mean the stuff minus the institutional stuff. The institutional stuff would be like the US formally apologizing for Japanese internment and redressing that. The stuff minus that would be the daily interactions between people, so groups that have conflict can live with one anther. (Apparently, it played a really key role after World War II in reconciling the French and the Germans.) Basically, as you know, I feel called to reconciliation, unity, and things like that, particularly within the Church...and I'm going because I really want to see how other people outside the church are understanding conflict resolution.
Anyway, in the summer they host a series of conferences, some of which I get to take part in...and parallel with that they have this program where they gather 20 students from around the world to learn about how to do this stuff. Each student gets to write a paper called "Conflict Where I Come From" which I just discovered I need to have written before my trip. I think I'm going to write mine on the North American Evangelical World...or maybe I need to narrow that down, but I don't know if I want to. Anyway, it's suppose to be a good time, and you get to meet these amazing people. I'll be at Caux for 31 days.
And since I'll already be in Switzerland, and since I have all these great Regent friends who live in Europe...it seems ridiculous not to see them. Also, here's my time to get some traveling in...because I actually haven't seen that much of Europe or the world really. So yeah, that's what I'm doing in Europe this summer.
"what are you doing in Europe this summer? (excuse me if you've already told me)"This is a fair question, because...err...I realize that I actually have not really spelled out what I'm doing this summer, because (a) I have all these emails sitting in my inbox (I'm working on them! Really!), (b) I'm still trying to figure that out, (c) I haven't been the best at updating people in many years, and (d) I'm not really that good at updating people I see day to day. I'm working on all this, thus the blog.
Anyway, in regards to my summer, here's an answer I gave to my community group: click here. Here's a bit more if you are curious:
I'm going to this place called Caux, which is near Geneva. It's this Belle Epoque hotel converted into an international place for moral and spiritual reconciliation...by moral and spiritual reconciliation, I think they mean the stuff minus the institutional stuff. The institutional stuff would be like the US formally apologizing for Japanese internment and redressing that. The stuff minus that would be the daily interactions between people, so groups that have conflict can live with one anther. (Apparently, it played a really key role after World War II in reconciling the French and the Germans.) Basically, as you know, I feel called to reconciliation, unity, and things like that, particularly within the Church...and I'm going because I really want to see how other people outside the church are understanding conflict resolution.
Anyway, in the summer they host a series of conferences, some of which I get to take part in...and parallel with that they have this program where they gather 20 students from around the world to learn about how to do this stuff. Each student gets to write a paper called "Conflict Where I Come From" which I just discovered I need to have written before my trip. I think I'm going to write mine on the North American Evangelical World...or maybe I need to narrow that down, but I don't know if I want to. Anyway, it's suppose to be a good time, and you get to meet these amazing people. I'll be at Caux for 31 days.
And since I'll already be in Switzerland, and since I have all these great Regent friends who live in Europe...it seems ridiculous not to see them. Also, here's my time to get some traveling in...because I actually haven't seen that much of Europe or the world really. So yeah, that's what I'm doing in Europe this summer.
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