Bearing Witness to Racism in America 2022 – Alabama (Photo Album)

Reflections on Bearing Witness to Racism in America (2022 Retreat – Alabama)

This past week, I traveled with thirty-five other Zen Peacemakers to Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, Alabama to bear witness to racism in America, to “see ourself as other, and other as ourself.” We stood on the same ground where Black people were shackled and sold. Where families were torn apart, divided up as property. Where children […]
Q&A Session for Bearing Witness to Racism in America Retreat 2022

It has long been our desire to create a bearing witness retreat around America’s racial history – as seen through the eyes of African Americans. We began in 2021 but were limited to offering an online retreat, but we are now able to do something in person. This year we plan on walking the ground in […]
Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration

Curators’ Preview and Gallery Talk Join Duncan Ryuken Williams and Emily Anderson, curators of the upcoming exhibition, “Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration” for a virtual preview of many never-before-seen artifacts that tell the stories of how Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal and incarceration […]
Connection Sustains Us and Forgiveness as Peacemaking: w/ Renee and Manny Iron Hawk

In this episode of the Beyond Listening Podcast, First Nations Leaders Renee and Manny Iron Hawk share stories around reconciliation, healing identity issues, and cycles of conflict. They speak to the significance of righting the wrongs of violence, and acknowledging the genocide, historical trauma, and false narratives about indigenous people for healing nation-to-nation relations. From […]
Sami Awad: The Transformation of the Holy Land

Peaceworker Sami Awad describes the potential of an emerging understanding of peaceful coexistence to create a new reality.
Bearing Witness – Auschwitz/Birkenau 2021

Faith in the Night: the San Francisco Night Ministry

For 57 years, since 1964, the San Francisco Night Ministry has quietly walked the streets of the city in the very late-night hours, offering a ministry of presence, loving attention, and hope to anyone we meet. Please join Rev. Trent Thornley, the Executive Director of the San Francisco Night Ministry, as he shares the mission […]
A few of the things to which we Bear Witness at Auschwitz

A few of the things to which we bear witness at Auschwitz: To what is around us: wires strung tight, lazily looped or snapped upright like fingers pointing skyward—locked towers and the silhouettes of helmet and gun—long muddy pathways that lead to the very end of the world—the lonely columns of standing chimneys in ruins […]
Auschwitz: Bearing Witness Magazine

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