Friday night our church film group took in London River, a tough film to watch. A Christian woman and a Muslim man search London for their children following the 2005 bombings. In the discussion that followed at a local bar we came up with quite a list of why this was anything but a Hollywood ending. Still the two parents found ways to hesitantly reach across their separate realities. And it was the Muslim that took the initial and the larger steps.
Even tentative attempts to bridge the religious and cultural divides in our world are steps worth taking. Some say that it is only Christians that are taking the steps. But then comes the news that Muslim intellectuals and activists called upon Egyptian Muslims to attend Coptic churches for Christmas Eve mass to show solidarity with the country’s Coptic minority after the Epiphany bombing of a Coptic church.
A 40 year old house wife Fatima Mostafa said, “I want to show the world that Islam is a religion of peace and that such attacks are nothing more than a result of poverty, ignorance and oppression.”
A story like that makes you believe that God’s light might yet find a way to make some of the old prophecies sound possible.
Peter
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