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Nicola Vidamour is a British Methodist minister who served in Pskov, Russia for six years. When she was feeling homesick, she would either go to the place in the city where two rivers meet or visit her favourite icons in the local museum. Nicola enables us to look through the windows of these icons and discover more about life in Russia and the way in which the gospel can be read though Russian eyes. Excerpts from Russian literature enter into dialogue with biblical texts. Through a mixture of memoir, theological reflection and spiritual insights, Nicola also invites us to think about where two rives meet in our own lives and shares some of the paired streams which flow within her. These include Russian and English, Orthodoxy and Methodism, heaven and earth, poetry and prose, body and soul. In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Where Two Rivers Meet provides a helpful foreigner’s guide to life in a Russian provincial town and offers much-needed assurance that the “other” can become a friend.

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Where Two Rivers Meet weaves together personal experience as a mission partner, a prayerful understanding of scripture, a love of Russian iconography and Christian tradition, and a lifetime of pastoral wisdom and theological reflection to create a beautiful tapestry that bears witness to the ways that God meets us and transforms us when we have the courage to risk genuine encounter with otherness. In a time when division and fear are prevalent, this book is an inspiration and a needed reminder that God dwells in loving relationship. - Johnny Sears, Director of the Academy for Spiritual Formation at The Upper Room

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Nicola Vidamour is a Methodist Minister, currently serving in the Woughton Ecumenical Partnership in Milton Keynes. Nicola read Russian at Bristol University and served as a Methodist Mission Partner in Russia from 2003–9.

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