Argh. I had a good portion of this update written – and now it’s disappeared. The whole window ran away…

Know this – I don’t have any pictures, b/c this cheap computer place has no drivers… but, I should be able to update, hopefully soon.
Today we started the 2nd day of “good stuff.” Alexander presented a paper on what we thought was going to be “Islam, Christianity and Extremism.” It was more about the history of Islam, and the history of violence the Koran presents. I find it interesting that people are able to find so many references to violence in the Koran (which I admittedly know next to nothing about) and kind of leave out the references to violence in the Bible. Kurt pointed them out, and I thank him very much for that.

The next part of the day was relating to the church’s response to terrorism, first in the US and then here in Russia. We went over the PC(USA)’s Resolution from the 2004 GA, on Violence and Terrorism, which was translated into Russian for this Seminar. Apparently many around the world have been surprised that we, from the States, have this stance. It’s a good thing to read, I highly recommend it.

Nu ladno, I must go away now, and will continue this later. Promise. Tomorrow is sightseeing (yippee), which we definitely need after today’s discussions.