The major challenge in editing material such as this is compressing down the broad topics it considers into just these few sessions. For example, we propose to cover world religions in one session. Obviously, the participants are not going to develop an in-depth understanding of the history and complexities of world religions in an hour and a half session with games and a snack. However, we do hope they will at least gain an initial introduction; that they will pick up some key points that can be called upon later (either in later sessions or in a life situation where they must either discern the difference between people’s beliefs or call upon their own).

I am currently revising a cross-cultural youth curriculum for Atlantic Bridge in the Netherlands. I was asked yesterday to write a one-page summary of the concept for general distribution.