Written by Jaime Jones // Preface: I’ve had a crappy week. No, the world has had a crappy week. I get out of class, and head to the soccer fields on 1st Street. When I get to the field, I sit on the grass and watch as more and more strangers gather and do the … Continue reading Travel: A Field Test
Learning to Hear: Bridge-building in the Middle East
Written by Jeffrey Pond // The image of a bridge-builder captivates me, and I believe someone who travels well is someone who is a bridge-builder. A bridge-builder sits and listens to others and tries to make a point of connection, but most importantly tries to hear what the other person is actually saying without placing prejudice … Continue reading Learning to Hear: Bridge-building in the Middle East
Red Means Stop, Green Means Go
Written by Rebekah Nivala // “I don’t like to hurt people, I really don’t like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.” – Jack Anderson In my current locale of Jakarta, Indonesia, I attend a growing mega church of 14,000 people. … Continue reading Red Means Stop, Green Means Go
Standing on Both Legs: Travel and the Development of a Bilingual-Bicultural Identity
Written by Michael Rau //Someone like me finds writing on travel and justice frustratingly difficult. The difficulty lies not in having nothing to say. Rather, travel is so embedded in who I am that anything I write on travel and justice seems to distill down to an autobiography. So, on this topic, I find writing … Continue reading Standing on Both Legs: Travel and the Development of a Bilingual-Bicultural Identity
Theme Overview: Widening Horizons
The wide world is all about you,” writes JRR Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Ring, “you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” Travel changes us if we allow it to. It teaches us about ourselves and about the people we encounter, broadening our horizons and generating empathy by the … Continue reading Theme Overview: Widening Horizons
