A few days ago we received an orientation to Burmese Vipassana meditation from....
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 pinnacles, because this trip has been full of amazing encounters and experiences. Flush with them. It's been invigorating and exhausting and thrilling and inspiring. Tonight was a....
Interfaith Prayer for Crossing Borders
I delivered this prayer was offered as part of daily chapel held today at....
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 what they endearingly call 'Sandwich Worship.' Traditionally, the Sunday after Christmas, worship takes place in the vestry of the building. Formal worship is truncated (and can....
Interdependent Web Writ Global: Myanmar-Style
About a month ago, I attended a lecture by interfaith community organizer and....
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 location to another close by. I acquired a cart with wheels to transport it down the hallway of the church basement where the soup kitchen was serving food. To lift, I bent at....