This post originally appeared on Medium.com There’s nothing radical about violence. Violence is pedestrian. Violence is weakness. Violence is the way things have always been. In the beginning… The Hebrew Scriptures tell us a story of how violence came into being. Two brothers, Cain and Abel, got into a fight over religiously motivated jealousy. Apparently,… Continue reading Reclaiming Radical
This post originally appeared on Extranewsfeed.com On Saturday, June 10, an anti-Muslim, non-profit organization called Act for America is encouraging people in various places throughout the United States to participate in a “March Against Sharia”. Act for America would balk at being called anti-Muslim. They claim they are working to confront terrorism, empowering women and… Continue reading Peacemaking as Counter-Protest
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We were all sitting around talking about what has happened and what we have come to know over the course of the past year. There is something deeply important about this practice – if we don’t remember together we don’t learn and we don’t grow. Much of the time we are just wasting time, in… Continue reading I Would Go to Hell
I celebrated the 35th anniversary of the day of my birth yesterday. If by ‘celebrated’ I mean I drove an hour to a church in Lakewood to teach a class, met a refugee from Congo at a random McDonalds (on purpose), and drove home; at which point my wife left to go to a baby… Continue reading A Bizzaro Birthday: Ageism & A Congolese Refugee
I have been on the road for two weeks at this point, sleeping on couches, pull-out beds, guest beds, hotel-like guest rooms, and makeshift floor beds in kids’ bedrooms. It is all pretty exhausting. I have sweat more than I think I have in my entire life (a by-product of visiting the Midwest from Colorado… Continue reading FRIENEMIES Tour: Notes From the Road
For a half a decade or more, I have been doing the work of encouraging people to get into uncomfortable situations, because I believe peace is only possible across lines of religious and cultural difference when relationships happen. Right now I am on tour, which is something I always dreamed of doing as a musician,… Continue reading And then the Jew Danced
