Reflections on the 2011 ISSRPL

A Roman Catholic priest from Uganda, a Jewish professor of sociology and religion from the US, a Muslim woman from Palestine with a degree in Peace Studies, a Protestant social activist from Indonesia, and an atheist from Russia walk into an Orthodox Christian monastery in Bulgaria built by a Muslim man whose ill wife was healed by Christian holy water and which houses a miraculous icon that grants fertility to the Muslim and Christian women who come to pray before it. No, this is not the beginning of a cruel joke. This actually happened just a few days ago...more