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By Kimberly Burnham

Carol Lynn Pearson started with a Jewish saying, “An enemy is someone whose story you do not know” and a question, “What if we each learned the wisdom stories of faith traditions different from our own.”

Premiered for the first time at the 2015 Parliament of World’s Religions, the resulting play “Caravan – a Happy Journey Through Wisdom Tales of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,” creates understanding of the shared experience and a deeper knowledge of the stories of these three faith traditions. It also caused tears and laughter as the actors wove stories from different traditions into a tapestry of love and friendship.

Actors, Tyson Baker, Anne Brings, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, Bijan Hosseini, JJ Neward, Jay Perry, Tito Livas and Susanna Florence Risser from the Plan-B Theatre Company and director Christy Summerhays brought alive the stories for the 2015 Parliament of Religions audience.

After the powerful and poignant and, at times, funny show questions came from the audience, “How did performing in this change you?” “What was the most surprising revelation you had as you worked on this performance?” “What was your biggest challenge?”

Referring to the plays inspiration to development of deep relationships across religious and cultural lines, JJ Neward noted, “For artists to be able to use our art in such a way, is a privilege.”

Christy Summerhays explained, “It was a challenge to find the kind of diversity in the actors that we wanted. The actors today represent several different religious and cultural traditions.”

“It brought us together as a family in a spirit of unity,” said Jay Perry, echoing the opening lines of the play about how we are a family, a very large family, and one that fights sometimes but still a family.

“Plan-B Theatre Company develops and produces unique and socially conscious theatre with a focus on new plays by Utah playwrights,” added Producing Director Jerry Rapier, noting that Carol Lynn Pearson is making the script available to not-for-profit organizations who want to reproduce the play in their own communities.

The final comment from the audience: “The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear. Through understanding each other’s stories we can create love where there was fear.”

I think the next stop for the play should be Spokane, Wash.

Kimberly Burnham
Kimberly Burnhamhttp://www.NerveWhisperer.Solutions
Author of "Awakenings: Peace Dictionary, Language and the Mind, A Daily Brain Health Program" Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine) investigates the relationship between memory, language, caring and pattern recognition to create a daily brain health exercise program enabling people to achieve better neurological health, mood, and quality of life. She is on a mission to create more peace and understanding in the world by collecting and writing about the nuanced meaning of “Peace” in 4,000 different languages and is looking for funding to complete the project. Known as The Nerve Whisperer, Kimberly uses words (books, presentations, and poetry), health coaching, guided visualization, and hands-on therapies (CranioSacral therapy, acupressure, Matrix Energetics, Reiki, and Integrative Manual Therapy) to help people heal from nervous system and autoimmune conditions. She also focuses on vision issues like macular degeneration and supports people looking for eye exercises to improve driving and reading skills as well as athletic visual speed. An award-winning poet, Kimberly grew up overseas. The child of an international businessman and an artist, she learned Spanish in Colombia; French in Belgium; then Japanese in Tokyo and has studied both Italian and Hebrew as an adult. The author of “My Book: Self-Publishing, a Guided Journal”, she can be reached for health coaching, publishing help, bible study zoom presentations or talking about peace at [email protected] or http://www.NerveWhisperer.Solutions.

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Paul Burnham
8 years ago

“Hostility has come more from borderline people within the [church] or without it: men not exactly obedient to any communion… It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each community is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine.” C.S. Lewis

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