Episcopal priest helps plan interfaith prayer house in Mongolia
It might seem far-fetched for an Episcopal priest from Little Rock, Arkansas, to be working on an interfaith prayer house in Mongolia, a mostly Buddhist country. But for Susan Sims Smith, it’s just the latest stage of her longtime dedication to interfaith work.
“I’m deeply committed to Christ,” she said. “And I also have a lot of blessings from Hindu and Buddhist spiritual traditions that are enriching [my] Christian practice.”
The Mongolian prayer house is a collaboration with one of the exiled Tibetan government’s top Buddhist advisers. And it draws on Sims Smith’s experience creating the Arkansas House of Prayer—“an interfaith haven for silent prayer and meditation” in the woods outside Little Rock.
