Confronting Whiteness with White Students
In January of 2020, I co-facilitated a two-day workshop on whiteness, race, and racism with a group of white high school students. I had designed the workshop w...
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Clouds of Witness
I was in Austin, Texas for a few days before I really looked up at the sky. I saw churning clouds under a hot sun, a favorite object of contemplation of mine in...
Our Aeonic Fire
Book of Serenity #30: Dasui’s Aeonic Fire A monk asked Dasui, “When the fire at the end of an aeon rages through and the whole universe is destroyed, is this de...
The Author of Violence and Staying Awake
In the midst of my theological education, I came to an understanding of why the existence of evil in our world was so often attributed to a conscious entity, ca...
More like you than you
I’ve often felt an affinity for the marginalized. It comes from an early place in my life of feeling marginalized myself — powerless or less important or unable...