Since earliest times, Midsummer has been a celebration of the life-giving power of the sun. Today we light our bonfires in praise of the God who created the sun and gives us light and life.

“Nonviolence is not for cowards,” Mahatma Gandhi told his friend Badshah Khan in 1930. “It is for the brave, the courageous.” At the time, they were working shoulder to shoulder – a Hindu and a Muslim – for Indian independence and for peace.

The Asian Rural Institute is much more than a school. Its work, “rooted in the love of Christ Jesus,” is inspired by a vision for “an environmentally healthy, just, and peaceful world.”