I was invited to be one of the preachers for the Last Seven Words Service at Church on the Hill AME Zion Church, NYC. I took the fifth phrase: “I am thirsty.” After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” A jarContinue reading “thirsting for dangerous memory: a good friday sermon”
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batman, kurdistan, and the red prison #PPFIK
Currently, I’m with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Christian Peacemaker Teams on a delegation in Iraqi Kurdistan. Today, we visited the Red Prison in the morning. Below is the blogpost I wrote for the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. It didn’t hit me until later in the afternoon how drained I was from the experience. Before coming on this delegation, weContinue reading “batman, kurdistan, and the red prison #PPFIK”
overthinking my iraqi kurdistan delegation in hopes for transformation
Intrinsic to fundraising is how one sells it. This certainly was true when I told others about my upcoming delegation to Kurdistan with Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Christian Peacemaker Teams. Either people have never heard of Kurdistan or understand it as being an ally for the US. I usually had to explain how Kurdistan isContinue reading “overthinking my iraqi kurdistan delegation in hopes for transformation”
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