Tomorrow morning, I'll be hopping in a 15-passenger van with several other Goshen College folks to drive approximately 800 miles to Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, for the annual Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship (ICPF) gathering. This year's theme is "Reaching Across Boundaries Through Dialogue" and the keynote speaker is Sojourner's editor Jim Wallis.
The conference hopes to specifically address domestic divisions, making Mr. Wallis an ideal choice. His recent book, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, deals with a popular topic for Wallis, namely getting the left and right in the United States to work together in an effort to protect and provide necessities for the poor and dispossessed.
While I'm looking forward to the conference, I have to admit that I'm not too eager to travel 12-13 hours in a van (both tomorrow and Sunday). I love ground travel (particularly when I'm driving), but vans and buses don't sit well with me. My travel companions should make the trip easier to stomach, though.
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