Peace In Every Language

Our last entry for the season in Greece we reflect on what it means to be a success and to offer peace in a world that might label us as criminal. We finish our pilgramage together -- feasting and carrying home with us the ways we've been changed by our excursion together.

What do you do with a church that sues each other, gets drunk at communion, and falls apart every other Tuesday? Paul stayed. He called them saints. And he wrote the Love Chapter right into the middle of their mess. This episode is for anyone who's ever wanted to quit their people. You're not alone.

This episode we are hiking up to the high cliffs of Meteora and waxing into poetic thought in view of the Parthenon in Athens.

Paul finally found a warm welcome in Berea. Then the troublemakers followed him. In this episode we walk the ancient stones of Veria (Berea), where the Bereans earned the title "noble" not by blind faith but by eager, daily examination of scripture. What do you do when the place that welcomes you becomes unsafe, not because the people changed, but because your enemies followed you home?...

We spend a brief moment in Neapolis and then spend time in the ancient site of Phillipi as well as a trip to Lydia's Baptistry along the side of the river. From inside our cells, can we hear the bells of life going on outside? Are we people of the dark?

It's the first day on a new adventure in Greece. These travels take us through the Greek locations of Paul's first missionary journey, which was arguably a failure by the metric of his own era! We travel and are weary, eat good food, and find good music and Good News along the way!

At Campamento El Guacio—a Presbyterian camp turned hurricane refuge and farm (while still a summer camp)—we wake before dawn to hike among invasive iguanas (‘forest chickens’) to a handmade cross that watches over the valley. Here, reparations fund solar panels instead of steeples. From the parable of the drowned boy (whose reflection accuses a negligent world) to MLK’s anti-war awakening in Puert...

From a van "choir" singing spirituals to a Lutheran church feeding its gentrifying neighborhood, we explores how Puerto Rican congregations turn worship into radical acts of justice. At Iglesia Presbiteriana en Puerto Nuevo, Communion becomes a protest—served to HIV support groups and celebrated by a transgender seminarian’s proud parents. Meanwhile, the laughter at Iglesia Evangélica Luterana Bet...

Today we journey to Puerto Rico’s sacred Taino sites and the revolutionary town of Lares, where mountains remember rebellion and lakes swallow colonial churches. Exploring petroglyphs of hurricane spirits, songs of liberation, and the colonization of joy, this episode asks: How do we find wholeness when the land itself holds both trauma and triumph? From ancient areítos to the Grito that never fad...

It's our first day in PR! Luggage was late, we were tired and yet still at the behest of the joy that the universe had planned for us. This episode is a short entry celebrating the Christmas season that was still alive and well in the towns near San Juan as we traveled to Campamento El Guacio where we stayed.

This episodes looks at a little of the travel life we've been experiencing and some of the inherent dualities of being away feom our home base. We talk a pittle about our meeting with Mano Rumalshah is bishop emeritus of the Church of Pakistan's Diocese of Peshawar while we were near the Pakistani border.

We wrap up our trip with some time in Nepal. Yoga and hiking through the mountains lends some persective on our experience so far. Our last episode till we hit the states!

How does being of two minds, or existing in a place that seems to hate peace affect our intention or avility to give and recieve it? We consider this as we hear the drum beats of the Dalit heart and the fusion music of  V. M. Bhatt.

We visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the center sikh faith, and talk about the message of care and hospitality.

We visit a few religious structures and can hear the joy in Christian worship, and the call ro prayer from the second largest mosque in the world in the midst of Dehli's open market.

Our first day of travel from the states. Tired and sleepy we reclect on the worldviews that shape our travel expectations.