My friend Obasi and his friend Michael have a great new podcast on peacemaking, and I am honoured to be featured on it this week.
The link to the episode on their page is here, and the Spotify link is embedded below with the blurb from their website — they are really thoughtful hosts and I recommend listening to all the episodes!
“It is just a fact that your wealth and your status in life is largely determined by where you’re born. So if you’re born in the US, if you’re born into an upper middle class family, that’s just luck. … On an individual level, as people who are born into wealth, we have a responsibility to have mercy, and to forgive.” – Siobhan
Siobhan is a writer and journalist who spent three years after college working in international development in Zambia and India. She has three stories for us, about mercy, and about what it means to be a peacemaker when you’re the one who’s been stolen from.
This episode was recorded on February 17, 2022.
A couple of extra notes here that the episode is based around three of my old blog posts/articles — Obasi and Michael’s synthesis and additions bring them all together, so they might not make sense in the context of mercy/peacemaking on their own, but here they are if you are interested:
South Delhi and Les Misérables’ Social Suffocation. October 29, 2019. An essay on why I (try to) live how I (try to) live, and the inspiration for Statistics and Sentiments.
Fragments of Leaving. December 27, 2018. Some personal reflections from the end of a difficult and transformative half-year.
A bold new experiment out of Florida: Guaranteed income for the formerly incarcerated. February 3, 2022. Exactly what it says in the title — you can see updates on the year-long pilot program here!