“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down on the collar of his robe. It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion.” (Psalm 133 NIV).

For peace, people must meet across differences. … All need to change. Fear must be changed into openness. … It is only as we meet and share together person to person, eye to eye, and heart to heart that we discover what it means to be human and to discover the joy of being together, …

“It’s only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up!” Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago