Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2011: Day #3
There are no words for Murambi. Our group of 40 Rwandans and internationals spent the day at Murambi today. It was a rough day for all of...
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Apr 11, 20112 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2011: Day #4
Inspiring morning at the Closing Ceremonies of the National Week of Mourning at the Rebero Genocide Memorial, just outside of Kigali. In...
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Apr 10, 20112 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2011: Day #2
This will be short posting. It’s already 12:20 am and we have an early departure in the morning. We spent the morning at the Kigali...
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Apr 10, 20112 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2011: Day #1
Our 2nd Peacemaker Institute Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat began this afternoon with orientation, introductions, and a really powerful...
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Apr 9, 20112 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2011: Peacemaker Retreat Begins Tomorrow.
Our Peacemaker Institute staff attended the opening ceremonies of the National Week of Commemoration and Mourning, honoring the victims...
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Apr 6, 20113 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2011: Peacemaker Team in Rwanda
As one would imagine, our second visit to Rwanda has been a deep plunge into not knowing and bearing witness. As I write this report, I’m...
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Nov 10, 20102 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Days #4 & 5
The wind and cold were even more intense on Thursday, the 4th day of the retreat. Suffering even a little seems to make Birkenau some how...
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Nov 3, 20103 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #3
Wow, what an evening. I’m guess I’m going to write about today starting in reverse, because that’s what’s most alive for me right now. We...
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Nov 2, 20102 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #2
We began our morning as usual with the small council circles, where the listening and sharing goes very deep. After breakfast we walked...
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Nov 1, 20102 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #1
We arrived in Oswiecim, Poland by bus from Krakow this morning and settled into our quarters at the Centrum Dialogu (Dialog Center) a...
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Aug 31, 201010 min read
Celebrating Prison Hospice Volunteers at the Louisiana State Penitentiary
I’d been driving through thick, tall forests that blanket either side of the two land state road with an almost haunted feeling...
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Jun 14, 20104 min read
Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat June 2010
Today we completed the fourth day of the Zen Peacemaker bearing witness retreat here at Auschwitz & Birkenau. This is my eighth retreat...
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May 1, 20109 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Reflections by Roshi Genro Gauntt
Call me Kamanzi. On our final night in Rwanda before returning home, Issa Higiro gave Fleet Maull and I new Kinyarwanda names. Fleet...
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Apr 22, 20106 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Summary Reflections
(All of Fleet’s daily blog entries from the retreat are on this site) The western hemisphere air travel mess that resulted from the...
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Apr 16, 20101 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #6
Today was our conference day. We hear presentation from our partner organizations: the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, the...
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Apr 16, 20103 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #5
After hour morning council circles, we boarded our bus for the 30 minute ride to the TIG work camps. TIG is a French acronym that stands...
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Apr 15, 20104 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #4
We skipped our early morning small group councils today in order to leave early for Murambe, 3.5 hours southwest of Kigali near the...
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Apr 13, 20104 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #3
After our morning small group councils, in which are Rwandan friends are getting more comfortable sharing their hearts each day, we...
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Apr 12, 20104 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #2
(warning: contains highly disturbing descriptions) After our first morning council groups, two groups of nine each, both including...
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Apr 11, 20102 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Day #1
We welcomed our Rwanda retreat partners and participants today at our retreat headquarters at the Presbyterian Church Guesthouse in...
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