We all carry up to 60,000 conscious and unconscious thoughts with us every day, and often everyday life leaves us no time to organize and perceive them. They accumulate and sometimes overwhelm us. Just then it helps to let them go. Write down your thoughts, wishes, complaints and prayers and leave everything here in the …read more

Conversations about complaining cause a certain uneasiness in me. It reminds me too much of lamenting. Lamenting is the little sibling of complaining. I have too many conversations in which there is no exchange, but instead people tell each other how bad the world is, what mistakes others make, how difficult the job is. Then …read more

A prayer does not replace a deed. But there is no deed that replaces a prayer. I am the lament indomitable I hold on to the hope I stand with the marginalized lend my mouth to the voiceless I shout the silent words of the soul into the ear of the sleeping God outrageous is …read more

the path   Station 1 Thinking Justice   Station 4 Seeking DIalogue   Station 2 Hearing Peace   Station 5 Living Hope   Station 3 Learning Respect   Station 6 Going Peace   Station 1 Thinking Justice   Station 2 Hearing Peace   Station 3 Learning Respect   Station 4 Seeking Dialogue   Station 5 …read more

I am a volunteer, like all that serve in the British Army. Part of the process of application, would be the question “what would you do if your posted to Northern Ireland?” this was in 1983 and the “Troubles” (it’s always a point of fascination how the British politician uses another word for war), was …read more

In the podcast “My children can’t breathe” Johan Robyn, as a “Person of Color”, talks about his experiences with racism in South Africa and how current the topic is today. The pictures of George Floyd reminded him of his own fate and that of his parents and grandparents. But his children are also affected by …read more