For many years, I have been one of the team carrying and planning the international conference for Initiatives of Change (Moral Re-Armament) in Caux, Switzerland. I have lived in Geneva since 1984 with my Swiss wife, Eliane, and now have dual nationality, British-Swiss. I am Managing Director of Caux Books, the small international publishing house linked with Initiatives of Change. I am also an independent writer and journalist. I am a lay preacher in the Geneva Reformed Church, and am one of the church's representatives on the Geneva Inter-Faith Platform, of which I am currently one of the Vice-Presidents. I hold a post-graduate certificate of specialisation in theology from the University of Geneva. Among my passions: reading, kite-flying, singing, and mountaineering.

'Birth in one place, growing old in another. And feeling a stranger in two places.' Can we learn to live as neighbours and not as enemies? And can we all live at home, wherever we live?

How can we help each other to cherish the truth? How can we build the trust that is the best natural fertilizer for the truth to grow? Telling the truth, with love, as best we may, is a step towards healing the wounded memories.

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Michael Smith reports a farmers’ dialogue on tackling poverty

I’ve had to find some kind of healing and wholeness without the thing I most wanted, to live and function and even enjoy life without it.

'La Marelle' is French for hopscotch, one of the oldest children's games still in use, going back to ancient Greece and beyond.

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This time, the South is addressing its own problems - and its conclusions, launched this month in Caracas, are refreshingly honest.

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