Religious diversity is not a problem to be solved, but a resource to be harnessed

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COMMENT | 'Our differences need not be a source of fear, but rather they can be opportunities for learning and discovery.'

| On Easter Sunday this year, terrorist attacks shook Sri Lanka. Hundreds were killed, hotels were targeted, and Sri Lankan churches were bombed during their Easter services at a time when Christians were in church celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

This story reveals a microcosm of the challenges facing religion in public life, but it also points towards our hope for the future.

Back in the UK, divisions over Brexit are driving people apart and fostering increasingly violent language that I pray does not become the harbinger of violent acts. We face a very real challenge: to seek the good of all people, from the individual to the national level. In the Christian tradition we often draw from the Jewish Old Testament text of Jeremiah, which calls God’s people, living as a minority, to be a blessing to the city in which they are living. In fact, it is by seeking the welfare of those who are of a different faith that they will receive God’s blessing.

 

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