by Jeff Ritchie, for the team
Today we visited the Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission, and Culture (ACI) located on top of a ridge outside Accra. ACI has long been a mecca for me to go deeper into African Christian studies, and I hoped our Palms Presbyterian friends would be as inspired during their visit as I have been the numerous times I’ve been there. We were not disappointed.
Our first meeting was with the Rev. Dr. Solomon Sule-Saa, Director of an initiative at Akrofi-Christaller Institute titled the Center for Interfaith Studies and Engagement in Africa. Solomon has been a personal friend since 1992, and I had followed his ministry over the years. Caryl Weinberg also had a very long friendship with him and was eager to see this new ministry.
After receiving “elephant-sized” hugs from this dear friend, Solomon and his colleagues introduced us to the Center. Its primary mission is to equip Christian leaders, resource Christian scholars and develop biblically-based reflection on interfaith issues in general, and Muslim-Christian interface in Africa in particular, through teaching, research, publications, and consultancy. One phrase in the presentation jumped out at us.
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