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....


Whatever Happens, Don't Be Afraid: Our Bodies are Impermanent

Last Saturday, I was given a task to carry a box of overripe bananas from one....


2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney....


A Call to Increase the Number of Wise Persons on Christmas Eve

Tonight, as part of the adult Christmas Eve service, I will be reading Rev.....