Sinking, sinking, sinking...

It's only 18 more days... until I'll be heading to Southeast Asia with a group of seminarians from PSR as part of an Immersion course during InterSession. The group will be traveling for 2 weeks (from 06Jan to 21Jan) visiting Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam. This trip will allow us to explore theology, religion, culture, and history in context - hence the term contextual learning. A ha. We'll be visiting various sites of religious significance and theological colleges. We'll engage in cross-cultural and multi-relgious dialogue. We'll meet with seminarians, pastors, theologians, etc. It will be interesting to see for ourselves the socio-historical contexts of each of these places - Malaysia and Vietnam are countries with complex histories of colonialism and religious pluralism. How will be engage in dialogue? How will we react? What will be the frameworks -- the lenses of analysis -- that will enable us to engage in meaningful conversation with our counterparts? We'll be defining and re-defining boundaries. We'll be stretched beyond our comfort zones. We'll be asked to speak about our private and public experiences. We'll need to redefine the boundaries of private and public.

And we have 18 days to prepare.