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ED Reflections: Engaging the Moral Imagination |
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Written by Charles Gibbs
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Thursday, 15 February 2007 |
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In a sense, all this attention to inviting the moral imagination created a river that we journeyed down together. The river was at times broad and slow, inviting easeful reflection. At other times it was narrow and fast, demanding our best cooperative efforts to navigate challenging waters at a rapid pace.
We learned about what motivates and challenges each person involved; and each group. We learned about our work, our dreams, our plans. We learned about our victories and our defeats. We learned about the commitment that insists on forging victory, even from defeat.
As we prepared to leave as this first of five sessions was drawing to a close, we were able to celebrate the plans each group had made to deepen our work when we returned home.
The Uganda team committed to work for sustainable peace and development in Uganda through advocating and lobbying for peace, strengthening a women’s interfaith network in peacebuilding, and being actively involved in mediation to end the civil war.
The Ethiopia team committed to train youth in conflict prevention work, to launch a newsletter in different languages and to establish six new Cooperation Circles in Ethiopia.
The India team committed to help resolve the century-old conflict between two warring factions of the Indian Orthodox Church.
The Philippines team committed to form a core team of Muslims and Christians in four grassroots communities in Metro Manila to promote Muslim-Christian relationship building leading to enduring, peaceful cooperation.
The URI learning team committed to introducing the new wisdom gained through the Moral Imagination Project into the URI system to help the whole network increase our effectiveness in fulfilling URI’s Purpose.
We were able to celebrate by singing each other’s songs. We were able to give thanks for the space for deepening insight and commitment we had shared. The space for deepening relationship and joy.
And we stood, in our final moments together, in a circle, facing each other in deep love and gratitude. And then we turned around, still in a circle, and faced outward into our beautiful, troubled world where each day can be a tug of war between despair and hope, and pledged to go forward bearing hope into the world through actions for peace, justice and healing inspired by our Source as we engage the moral imagination.
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