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On storytelling
Belfast, N. Ireland Upon certain subjects, there can be no end to musings. Upon some events, ideas, or practices, we must ruminate continually, never doubting their relevance or perhaps even...
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POEM: Pádraig Ó Tuama’s “Affirmative Action”
Belfast, N. Ireland I recently began reading Pádraig Ó Tuama’s book of poetry Readings from the Book of Exile (London: Canterbury Press Norwich, 2012). Insightful in its profundity and subtlety, his...
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On ikon
Belfast, N. Ireland (What I am writing here is not an analysis or representation of Ikon. It is an analysis of my interpretation of Ikon.) Tonight, I attended my first Ikon event. What is Ikon you ask?...
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On the welcome table: A Thanksgiving Reflection
Belfast, N. Ireland (Save for occasional tweaks, this reflections remains as I originally wrote it for Thanksgiving 2010. I thought I would recycle it here. I send a special shout out to Lee C. Camp...
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What Are You Bringing With You? On Burdens, Baggage, and Blessings
Originally published this on the Tokens Show Blog on July 16, 2015. View to Merton’s grave at GethsemaniOut my window, rain droplets slip from the leaves of trees rising from the garden near Thomas...
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Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity: Haikus from a Churches’ Forum on...
Sometimes, I take notes in haikus. John Paul Lederach taught me this, though I’ve never met the man. In his brilliant book The Moral Imagination, he writes of the art of haiku as the art of finding...
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Creating Painful Space Inside Ourselves: Thoughts on Wombs and Compassion
This piece was originally published on the Tokens Show Blog on Sept 17, 2015. I am not a mother. This must be clear as I begin writing thoughts that involve wombs: I don’t have one and never will. I...
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Gospel Rewrite: Jesus and Healthcare
This was originally posted at Red Letter Christians on March 30, 2016. To read an intro to the Gospel Rewrite series, click here. To read the original gospel stories, click here. In December I began...
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Where I’m From: A Poem
For four days at the end of June, I attended the annual summit of Narrative 4 in Limerick, Ireland. I’ll do a longer post on Narrative 4 later, but in short, it is a global non-profit working to build...
View ArticleThe Revolution Will Not Be Romanticized
Not too long ago, my friend needed to talk about a “work dilemma.” He spent most of his time advocating for condemned men in prison, investigating their cases, learning their stories, building...
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