I spent four days this last week at the Kindlings Fest conference up on Orcas Island. Kindlings is an organization dedicated “to rekindle the spiritual, intellectual and creative legacy of Christians in culture.” The theme of this year’s conference was “turning mourning into dancing.” Most of the art centered around how we deal with grief [...]
I’m up on Orcas Island at an art and faith conference called Kindlings Fest. I wanted to take time to put this post up and share the talk I gave last Sunday at my Dad’s church in Edmonds. Most of this is based on portions of my thesis, but I didn’t go into any of [...]
Paulo Freire, in his book ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’, writes: “Yet it is–paradoxical though it may seem–precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love may be found. Consciously or unconsciously, the act of rebellion by the oppressed can initiate love. Whereas the violence of the [...]
