Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi

Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi is born and raised in a catholic family in Sri Lanka. We met in 2007 in Leicester when Shanthi was working at St Phillip’s Centre together with Andrew Wingate and Suleman Nagdi. (Both is presented in previous episodes of this podcast.)Shanthi is teaching both in Colombo and occasionally in Lahore, researching in the field of religion and peace. His work includes studies of the Hizmet movement which is also present here in Drammen where Shanthi has visited several times. In this podcast we talk about the present situation in Sri Lanka and the general dialogical work of helping people of different faith and convictions meet and talk. In a multi faith context, the identities are mixed and many - also in individuals.Shanthi is raised as a catholic christian, trained theologian, priest - and at the same time deeply immersed in buddhist thought. I feel there is a possibility of double belonging, he says, even in belief..The podcast is Norwegian language. Every now and then we will launch an episode in English. This is the third one. Please stay tuned and find new ones coming. A new episode of Ypsilonsamtaler is released every Thursday morning. You will find Ypsilonsamtaler in most podcast apps.See more episodes at the homepage of Ypsilonsamtaler:https://shows.pippa.io/ypsilonsamtalerYpsilonsamtaler (Ypsilon Conversations) is a podcast hosted by Ivar Flaten, Director of the Church Dialogue Centre of Drammen (Kirkelig Dialogsenter Drammen.) The centre is working with The Church of Norway, the Diocese of Tunsberg. We are working on a lot of regional and national projects where the idea is to involve in community coesion work, cultural events and projects. The Ypsilonsamtaler podcast is named after the iconic pedestrian bridge Ypsilon built in 2008. Drammen is a river town and a we like to look upon ourselves as bridge builders in several aspect of the concept. The Ypsilon bridge is connected to a sound sculpture, The River Harp.Serving as Tunsberg Diocese Dialogue Officer and Director of the Kirkelig Dialogsenter Drammen, I invite people to conversations where cross cultural encounters, immigrant experiences, daily life and lesson learned form the exchange. The invetees has made - and are making the community a better place through their work, volonteering and service in so many ways. Drammen Municipality has100.000 inhabitants after merging with two neighbouring municipalities January 2020. The citizens originate from more than 150 different nations. Here lives peoploe with a lot of different life stories, cultural references and relegious traditions. During 15 years as a minister Revd Ivar Flaten has met with many both as a minister and a dialogue partner. Pubilshed by: Kirkelig Dialogsenter DrammenProgram host: Ivar FlatenMusic: Ole Jørn MyklebustSound design intro: Are Tågvold FlatenPhoto in logo by: Per Ulleland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.