Director’s Report:
I contribute an essay titled “Where God, Soil, and People Cross” in the quarterly review of “Worship and Music” No. 203 (published in October 2024 by United Church of Christ in Japan Publishing Section). This issue is a special issue on “Creation and Environment,” and I was asked to write an essay from the “site”. I introduced ARI as the one and only “environment” where God, soil, and people cross, and concluded by saying that in this unique environment, “we should spare no effort to “live together with other human beings” and hope that transformation and creation will be carried out greatly and freely. In a world where so many conflicts, confusions, and confrontations are occurring simultaneously, this is truly what I earnestly hope for.