Given a touch more space than my web-designer (my younger son Andrew) would allow me in the navigation area of the blog's front page, it would say:
Peter Adams works in Interfaith and Intercultural Relations, Community Peace-building and Reconciliation, working as part of the ministry team of St Mary's Church, the Anglican Parish Church in Luton, England. He is the Churches Together in Luton (CTL) representative on Luton Council of Faiths (LCOF), and he does most of his work in association with LCOF. He is nominated by LCOF to Luton Assembly's Committee, working closely with other third sector (voluntary and community sector) groups, and sits on Luton Assembly, the Strategic Local Partnership.
Basically what all that means is that I spend a lot of time in meetings, but also hopefully have lots of opportunity to do what I love to do, which is bring people together where history, culture, faith, ideology and circumstances have separated them.
That is the short story! The long story is more complex, and I will return here to tell it another day!
This blog tells something of that journey as it progresses. Until now I have tended to be strongly ideas and issue based in my writing, but now (a couple of days after Easter, 2010, and more notably I guess, the first full day of the 2010 General Election campaign) I am planning to try and be a bit more revealing into aspects of my journey as an Englishman, a Christian, a thinker, and a lover of just about every culture I have ever encountered on this planet. I want to be honest because I passionately believe that many other Christians and English need to walk this way.
(A short note. I seek to be as open as I can. But I deal with many people, and sometimes areas of their deep confidences, and so cannot be open. Also peace in its early stages as confidence is being built is a fragile thing, and sometimes does not bear too much exposure. So there will be gaps, but I do want to be open as to my processing.)
More soon. For now I am going to conclude by cutting and pasting something from the former edition of this blog!
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We welcome you to join us in an exciting and interactive discovery of
what the Bible speaks of as God's purpose and dream for His creation: the Reconciliation of All
Things. (Colossians 1.20) It's our belief that we can pray and
work for this dream to become a reality "on earth as well as in heaven."
Reconciliation can be our experience now in our multicultural cities of
the west and in a globalised world.
ReconciliationTalk.com is
our response to the call of Jesus for us to be peacemakers in a broken
world. We want to wage peace and not war. The first thing we can do is
learn to talk together, to listen to each other, to enjoy each others
cultures and lives, and to become friends - whatever our beliefs or
worldview.
We have begun to fill up these pages. There is a lot
more coming soon! Central to it all is this inspiring passage from
Isaiah which calls us to dream with Him:
On this mountain the
Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a
banquet of aged wine-- the best of meats and the finest of wines. On
this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the
sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The
Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove
the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.
Isaiah
25.6-8
