peacebuilding High Anxiety To work for peace is to overcome our fear of failure, because peace is a journey and not a destination.
third things first Betrayal, the Brain, and Nonviolent Action in a Polarized America If you’ve been feeling betrayed by political leaders, overwhelmed by bad news, or stuck in anger, this week’s Third Things First episode is for you.
ireland Featured This Story Isn't Over! One night of storytelling in Ireland helped me welcome mystery back into my life. The idea that my life would be over at 60 was only a story I had been telling myself!
third things first Featured Exchanging Accusation for Gratitude: The Mysticism of Daily Joy How gratitude upends the spirit of accusation and helps us find the mystical in the mundane!
third things first Featured Possibility in Your Pocket: Magic, Tarot, and Conflict Transformation Suzanne talks with magician James Warren and Tarot reader Sally Graciela Ramirez about how magic and mysticism touch the irreducibly artistic heart of peacebuilding.
third things first Featured From Anger to Artisan: The Fire Inside Peace Work, with Andrew DeCort Andrew DeCort captures something I've circled in my work on conflict resolution: the question of what we do with the anger, the urgency, the heat that rises when belonging is in danger.
racial reconciliation Featured Marking the Unmarked: Racial Healing in Enslaved Burial Grounds Julia Robinson Moore tells her story of how a childhood brush with the Ku Klux Klan left her with searing questions about religion, race, and violence. Now, her peacebuilding work brings Black and White descendants together around the neglected grave sites of the enslaved.
wicked musical Claiming a Place In Your Context Dr. Brian Ammons and I continue our conversation about Wicked, vocation, faith, art, embodiment, individualism, and the false gods that stand in the way of our vocations.
Wicked Defying the Gravity of Going It Alone Dr. Brian Ammons brings a queer perspective to Wicked, Defying Gravity, and what it means to find your vocation.
nonviolence Who Has the Power? Thoughts about who holds power in conflictual situations, how nonviolent direct actions is "soft power," but not weak, and the people giving me hope this week.
conflict transformation Featured Reasons For Hope Announcing a new podcast from The Wicked Truth – Third Things First!
Wicked What's Next! Wickedness is not an inherent trait, but an accusation made by the powerful against outcasts and the defenseless. When we stop dividing the world into good and evil, we begin to see one another as whole — capable of both, yet defined by neither.
