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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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Apr 10, 20102 min read
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat 2010: Pre-Retreat Preparations
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat Pre-Retreat Preparations in Rwanda April 9 & 10 We arrived in Rwanda on Thursday evening and just finished...
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Dec 24, 20083 min read
Virtual Meditation & Peacemaking
by Coughran Mayo published in Prim Perfect Magazine, December 2008 edition. More than a few non-profits have followed the lead of their...
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Nov 6, 20082 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2008: Day #3
This year we are primarily focused on re-visioning the Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness retreat; so after two days of following our...
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Nov 5, 20082 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2008: Day #2
Tuesday, November 4th. We held our first small group councils this morning before breakfast, 7 – 8:30 am. We have four small groups each...
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Nov 4, 20082 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2008: Day #1
Yesterday was our first full day at the camps. We spent the morning at Auschwitz I after beginning our plunge into Not Knowing as we do...
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Nov 11, 20078 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2007: Reflections
I’m sitting on a plane, flying from Munich to Washington, D.C. on my way home to Colorado. Though exhausted from little sleep and a week...
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Nov 9, 20072 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2007: Days #4 & 5
I am sitting down to write this late on the night of November 9th, after two very long full days here in Oswiecim, Poland. Thursday was...
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Nov 8, 20074 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2007: Day #3
As we boarded the bus this morning at the Dialog Center for the short ride to Birkenau, it looked like we were in for more of the same,...
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Nov 7, 20072 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2007: Day #2
Day Two: Birkenau As always, we began our morning with the small group councils at 7 am. I am facilitating Group 2. There are only six of...
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Nov 6, 20073 min read
Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat 2007: Day #1
Forty of us, from 11 different countries began the Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat this morning, leaving Krakow early by bus...
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Mar 26, 20063 min read
Denver Street Retreat 2006
by Connie Hunt I have been typing constantly (over 30 pages) since I returned from the street retreat, feeling compelled somehow to...
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Aug 26, 20059 min read
Bearing Witness: Austin Street Retreat 2005
Report By Hope Malkan Bearing witness is the opposite of denial. We all tend to look the other way. That’s not what Buddhism is about. —...
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