An international expert in reconciling Christian and Muslim peoples and ideas will discuss his life’s work and experiences at a public lecture in Port Macquarie on Wednesday 10 April. Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Reverend Professor James Haire, AC, director of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra, will lead discussions  into relations between Christian and Muslim people, and to how both communities can live in peace and harmony with integrity to both faiths. Professor Haire is past president of the Uniting Church in Australia and the National Council of Churches,  and led a Christian university in Indonesia for 13 years. Between 2000 and 2005, he participated in peace negotiations in the Molucca Islands based in Ambon, Indonesia, after considerable violence between Christians and Muslims in the province. The event, the first of four public lectures to be held at the Glasshouse in Port Macquarie, will start at 5pm.