The Year in Haiku

Poetry, photos, and reflections about the mystery and mindfulness of poetry emergent from a year-long experiment to write a haiku a day.

Listen for the Lone Cricket’s Song

A collection of poems gathered between late 2019 and throughout 2020.

Zen Brain: Mind, Brain, Social Perspectives of Views, Values, Ethics

John Paul's contributions to the Upaya Zen Center's Zen Brain conference in 2017, which explored the theme, "Mind, Brain, Social Perspectives of Views, Values, Ethics."

Advent Manifesto: Does my soul still sing?

A collection of one hundred thoughts, Advent reflections.

Prelude, The Edge of a Cry

The prelude to Oumar Farouk Sesay's book of poetry entitled The Edge of a Cry.

Supporting Creative, Whole Peacebuilders: An Apprenticeship Program

A chapter weaving reflections emergent from the apprenticeship program that includes narratives from each of the four apprentices.

Spirituality and Religious Peacebuilding

A chapter exploring the meaning of quality of presence rising from spiritual resources that facilitate the practice of religious peacebuilding in protracted conflict.

Five Qualities of Practice in Support of Reconciliation Processes

A practitioner’s view of attitudes and approaches for supporting reconciliation that have proven useful, cautioning against reducing reconciliation to a formula or technique-based methodology.

Of Nets, Nails, and Problems: The Folk Language of Conflict Resolution in a Central American Setting

A book chapter adaptation of John Paul's doctoral dissertation on indigenous understandings of conflict processes rooted in language and culture.