Monday: It's Martin Luther King Day and we intend to commemorate it in the fullest of spirits.
Our organisation hosts a collaborative inquiry with the St Ethelburga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation on "Can non-violence be cool?" Eighty people attend, half of them are young people from a number of different schools.
Later we rush off to the Houses of Parliament, where we are given a tour by the Bible Society's parliamentary officer Dr David Landrum. Then we head off to Westminster Abbey where the Dean gives a tour, pointing out that as a martyr, Martin Luther King's statue is at the entrance of the Abbey. As they saw the tombs of past monarchs laden with gold and precious stones, the young people were buzzing.
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