Writing from the deep side of tired! After 7 hours of learning important things, two hours of planned socialising, two hours of important phone/skype calls and the rest doing usual every day things like catching up with news (strange that as a teen I always loathed the news!) I am completely fatigued! It was an interesting weekend, one in which my fascinations on race, development and theology intertwined. I learned that people believe very strong things about these issues. Some time ago I believed or tolerated some of the things I heard over the weekend. I don't anymore and it's a lonely island when you find that fewer and fewer people see things the way you do. I am grateful though for those that I can discuss these issues with without anyone of us drawing a sword. But I am more grateful that I only think differently now because people were tolerant of me when I thought I knew it all. I remember Andy handing me a stack of books on these issues and me, looking at the c
Resisting the stereotypes.