Wednesday 2 July 2008

building resilient communities

Manchester airport and waiting for my flight to London and then on to Yemen, returning on 13th if that's a Saturday. I have been encouraged to take a big question with me... To kind of pursue at all costs.
For Yemen it is going to be: "what place does religion play in building a resilient community?"
I think, but don't know yet that this is one of the main contributions that faith groups can make is the ability to keep communities of people going when things get difficult. That is certainly their role in Yemen as far as I can see from britain...
But maybe it's like in the Simpsons movie, when disaster hits the people in church run to the pub and the people in the bar run to church!

No comments: