Comments on: Growing up in Cairo/The right to take a shower

By: Mandi Rice

Mandi Rice — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:22:56 +0000

Kerry, I really appreciate your reflections on where you grew up and the lessons the ways that reconciliation was implicitly a part of your childhood. Perhaps surprisingly, that resonates with my experience attending a desegregated school in the Midwest. The question that stood out to me most from your post was: How do you “choose to coexist peacefully among enemies when you graduate into adulthood”? That question makes it all the more powerful to realize that you encountered Chacour when you were a young teen, right on the bridge between childhood and adulthood.

By: Micah Witham, NA-22

Micah Witham, NA-22 — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:23:07 +0000

Kerry thanks for this post and for sharing about your experience with local churches. As a local pastor I found myself asking what would I do if you approached our church and asked for help? Also, I’m excited to get to know you and learn from your experiences growing up where you did. What a wealth of lived/embodied experiences where peacemaking was a part of your daily reality.

By: Jer Swigart

Jer Swigart — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:48:52 +0000

Kerry. Thank you for this. You’ve offered so much of yourself in this first post and I receive and hope to honor the gifts given. Fr. Chacour is also one of my heroes. His book (Blood Brothers) was the first of its kind that I had ever read. His story was one of the core contributors to my deepening conviction to take peacemaking and reconciliation seriously. I do wonder what we can learn from him as we grow painfully aware of the divides between sisters and brothers in our own context. How would he invite us to be both generous and honest in the direction of repair?