Megan McKenna, a native of New York City has lived, visited and gypsied through North and South America (especially Bolivia/Peru), Europe and a collection of islands: Celtic, Japanese, the Philippines, Singapore, Haiti and the Hawaiian Islands and through Malaysia, India, Marshall Islands, Thailand, Australia and China. She works with Indigenous groups, in base Christian Communities and with justice and peace groups as well as parishes, dioceses and religious communities. She has been on the United States National Board of Pax Christi and in 2002 was appointed an Ambassador of Peace for Pax Christi. To read more about Megan, click here.
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Coming in 2024!
The Bowl of Endless Light:
Stories of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Repairing the World
by Megan McKenna
ORBIS Publishing
This book was born of the last 4-5 years working with First Nations and Indigenous peoples, in Northwestern Canada and other areas around the world. It looks at the themes that are the basic foundations of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restorative Justice. Then it delves into how trauma, violence, and evil affect us, especially those who are victims but also how it affects all of us. The second part of the book looks at TIKKUM OLAM, the Jewish concept of repairing the world in chapters on repairing our soul, repairing relationships, and repairing systems and institutions. And it gathers the processes together culminating in the reality of living and knowing the experience of Resurrection now in our lives. Each chapter is wrapped around a scripture passage (or two) and fleshed out with stories, from Indigenous traditions worldwide, and from around the world in culture and religious traditions. Most of the material has been taught in Canada, Israel, the U.S., in prisons, with those experiencing abuse and persecution and with refugees worldwide examining how trauma and violence deforms us and how to repair our lives with grace and hope shared.
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ART OF STORY: Living the Mystery
by Megan McKenna
To read, click image below.
Published by WITH ONE ACCORD: Learning and Living the Feminine Dimension as Church
Vol 3/Summer 2023 Issue on CREATIVITY [www.magdalacolloquy.org]
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Another great book by Megan!
This is a book of stories remembered and gathered from around the world over six decades. They are people stories: wisdom stories. They are written and shared in gratitude to encourage others. They are individual glimpses of the poor who save us, specifically some of the poor of God, the least of God’s beloved children, given to me as gifts. They are simple, ordinary, amazing women, children and men, of all ages who image and reflect God so strongly and singularly, startling us into insight and deepening our knowledge of who God is and who we are and can be by grace. This book seeks to be a thank you note for encountering such people and a way of passing on the gift of them to others, since ‘a gift isn’t a gift until it’s been given at least twice.” Read the stories and unwrap the gift for yourself.
Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Save-Us-Megan-McKenna/dp/1940414288
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Megan visits Inuvik and rides a skidoo!
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