For three days, we are in the Bagan region, which is like walking amid a ten....
Good Morning, Inle Lake
Still quite dark, I was awakened this morning by two competing prayers. As I....
Entering Into Meditation
A few days ago we received an orientation to Burmese Vipassana meditation from Pyae U Kyi Win, who is the meditation director at the center where we are just about to spend three days. It is associated with the Chanmyay Yeiktha monastery where the....
Just Another Friday Evening: Shwedagon Pagoda
It must be the place to go on a Friday night. Old people. Young people. ....
Post-Colonial Dinner Theater: An Attempt to Restore Erased Dignity
It was supposed to be a pinnacle evening. I must say, a pinnacle among....
Interfaith Prayer for Crossing Borders
I delivered this prayer was offered as part of daily chapel held today at Myanmar Institute of Theology in Yangon, Myanmar, where our study group from Andover Newton Theological School, has been their guest this week. Spirit of Life, God of Many Names....
Visiting Pann Pyo Let: An Abundance of Abundance
I am beyond exhausted and yet feel the desire and the duty to blog. Our days....
New Year, New Hope, and the Hokey Pokey
The last Sunday of the old year I spent at my internship congregation. I led....
Interdependent Web Writ Global: Myanmar-Style
About a month ago, I attended a lecture by interfaith community organizer and personal hero of mine, Eboo Patel. He's the founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, which started in Chicago and has gone world-wide, bringing young people - first at the high....
Breakfast in Burma or Books for Babes
We are staying at the Myanmar Life Hotel for the first week of our trip. We....