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The same Donkey that brought Jesus to Jerusalem died on Saturday. Here is a fable story of the Donkey and its immense part on Jesus life. (This is part of another project in the works called Book of Hours.) FRIDAY — 8 PM — 4 hours after Jesus’ death There was a palpable silence everywhere around the Empire. That dead silence also invaded the village near Bethphage on the Mount of Olives where the donkey who had carried Jesus into the streets of Jerusalem lived. The donkey belonged to a family of small traders in that region, but his lineage…

Read it here: Ecumenica Interview When Wajcha Meets David Mason: A Conversation with Cláudio Carvalhaes DAVID MASON EDITOR, ECUMENICA CLÁUDIO CARVALHAES UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY [ABSTRACT] Ecumenica editor David Mason talks with Cláudio Carvalhaes, Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary, about Carvalhaes’s play When Wajcha Meets Pachamama, in which, with others, he has performed in New York City, and around the world. The play involves a clown named Wajcha who searches for the means of healing a wound that he has discovered in the earth and in himself. In the conversation, Carvalhaes articulates his ideas about the relationship between theatrical…

The house I grew up in São Paulo was sold. I can now see how presences become ghosts and how spaces once filled with life lose their spirit. We grow up, we leave the house, our parents get sick, die or need to move and the house which once was a castle, a shelter, a place of belonging becomes a memory of entire lives, a close-distant place, a landscape filled with moments that made who we have become. Like a polaroid that freezes many years together, the shiny picture loses its color and gives space to something else. I lived…

Decoloniality, Theory and Methodology Conference: (From) Coloniality and Religious Practices: Liberating Hope 04-08 April, 2019 – São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil – International Association of Practical Theology Cláudio Carvalhaes A band begins playing the music of Gilberto Gil: Um Sonho Throughout the lecture this video is on screen: you can see the performance below, the lecture starts at 0:32 minutes. Introduction I want to express my gratitude to those of you who are here. I would like to thank all of the people of the International Association of Practical Theology, especially to Prof. Dr. Júlio Cézar Adam and Prof. Dr. Valburga…