Window On The World
This spring semester Gordon students in majors from Economics to Music are studying in almost 20 countries from Costa Rica to Czechoslovakia. As we move through Lent toward Easter, we asked them to send images in keeping with the holy season from the countries they're calling home.
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Sarah Durfey, Middle East Studies Program
Cairo, Egypt | Spring 2008
"On Friday we got together with a group of Coptic Christian students, and took them to a monastery out in the desert called Anaphora. It was a day of dialogue, new friendships, prayer, worship, and peaceful silence. This Monastery is an organic farm, growing all its own food--including wheat--a kind of small oasis out in the middle of the desert. There is a channel of water running through the property, for irrigation, but also as a symbol of God's abundance. Everything has a meaning, even the shapes of the buildings and the windows. It was so beautiful. And it was really good to talk with the Copts, and hear their stories of living as a minority here in a Muslim country. We talked of faith, and Jesus, and traditions, and life's temptations, and the Bishop shared such beautiful wisdom."