Border Walkers

Our next guest on Border Walkers is uniquely qualified to give us strategies for speaking peace into our culture of disinformation, polarization, and alignment around party lines. Marilyn McEntyre has spent her career caring for words and teaching others to do the same. A poet and the author of 15 books (including Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies and Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict), Marilyn has embodied the border walking approach we are seeking to learn on this podcast, first as a long timer professor of American literature and then the professor of medical humanities at UC Davis and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. 

Join us on Friday, February 19th at 6:30pm Mountain Time, live on Teams, as we host an interactive community conversation with Marilyn McEntyre where she will teaches us strategies for using our words to bring peace into our culture of climate. 

Pre-register for the conversation by visiting http://borderwalkers.eventbrite.ca. If you can’t make it on Friday, our the conversation will be recorded and you will be can find it wherever you are listening now.

Recorded by Daniel Melvill Jones. Music by TimMoor from Pixabay.

Even here, in Canada, Trumpism has pushed people to extremes. Our nation north of the border appears to be better equipped to hold the center in tension - but do we not aspire more for our country? Do we not long for peace beyond the constant politics of division? We hope you will join us, as Dr. Michael Macleod, professor of political science at St. Mary’s University in Calgary, helps us reflect on these moments when “Ethics and Politics Clash: Border Walking in a Post Trump World”

Topic: Border Walkers - In a Post Trump World with Prof. Michael MacLeod

Time: Feb 5, 2021 04:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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This episode was recorded live on Zoom with an interactive audience. To learn details about our next interactive conversation, visit https://anchor.fm/borderwalkers, or subscribe to Border Walkers in your favourite podcast app where will release a short trailer announcing the date and time of our next conversation.

You can also join the Border Walkers: Continuing the Conversation Facebook Group (http://www.facebook.com/groups/797529447854792/).

Our guest, Makoto Fujimura, is a leading contemporary artist whose paintings have been featured in galleries and museums around the world. He was a Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts, is the founder of the International Arts Movement and the Fujimura Institute, and co-founder of the Kintsugi Academy. His writings and selected artwork can be found on his website, https://makotofujimura.com

Details on Mako’s book, Culture Care: Reconnecting With Beauty for Our Common Life, can be found here: https://www.ivpress.com/culture-care

Mako mentions James Davison Hunter’s 1991 book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.

Mako describes working with the Chairman of the National Foundation for the Arts, Dana Gioia (https://danagioia.com/about-dana-gioia/)

Mako also mentions QU4RTETS, his project with Bruce Herman: https://iamculturecare.com/projects/qu4rtets The Old English word for border stalker is mearcstapa.

Details on the Walking on Water series, Mako’s collaboration with Susie Ibarra, can be found here: https://makotofujimura.com/art/portals/walking-on-water

Mako’s podcast is “Culture Care”, and his interview with Susie Ibarra is on Episode 4. https://culture-care-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/light-through-the-cracks-episode-4

Mako’s new book is Art and Faith: A Theology of Making: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300254143/art-and-faith

Mako refers to David Brooks January 7th op-ed in the New York Times, “This Is When the Fever Breaks”: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/capitol-riot-republicans.html.

Mako uses Mitt Romney’s response during the assault on the Capital as an example of truth telling. It is described on this episode of The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/podcasts/the-daily/capitol-congress-mob-donald-trump.html

Mako mentions Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence. Mako’s own book exploring the themes of the novel is Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering. Mako was a creative consultant on Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film adaptation of the novel.

This episode was recorded live on Zoom with an interactive audience. To learn details about our next interactive conversation, visit https://anchor.fm/borderwalkers, or subscribe to Border Walkers in your favourite podcast app where will release a short trailer announcing the date and time of our next conversation.

You can also join the Border Walkers: Continuing the Conversation Facebook Group (http://www.facebook.com/groups/797529447854792/).

Our guest, Makoto Fujimura, is a leading contemporary artist whose paintings have been featured in galleries and museums around the world. He was a Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts, is the founder of the International Arts Movement and the Fujimura Institute, and co-founder of the Kintsugi Academy. His writings and selected artwork can be found on his website, https://makotofujimura.com

Details on Mako’s book, Culture Care: Reconnecting With Beauty for Our Common Life, can be found here: https://www.ivpress.com/culture-care

Mako mentions James Davison Hunter’s 1991 book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.

Mako describes working with the Chairman of the National Foundation for the Arts, Dana Gioia (https://danagioia.com/about-dana-gioia/)

Mako also mentions QU4RTETS, his project with Bruce Herman: https://iamculturecare.com/projects/qu4rtets The Old English word for border stalker is mearcstapa.

Details on the Walking on Water series, Mako’s collaboration with Susie Ibarra, can be found here: https://makotofujimura.com/art/portals/walking-on-water

Mako’s podcast is “Culture Care”, and his interview with Susie Ibarra is on Episode 4. https://culture-care-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/light-through-the-cracks-episode-4

Mako’s new book is Art and Faith: A Theology of Making: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300254143/art-and-faith

Mako refers to David Brooks January 7th op-ed in the New York Times, “This Is When the Fever Breaks”: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/capitol-riot-republicans.html.

Mako uses Mitt Romney’s response during the assault on the Capital as an example of truth telling. It is described on this episode of The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/podcasts/the-daily/capitol-congress-mob-donald-trump.html

Mako mentions Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence. Mako’s own book exploring the themes of the novel is Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering. Mako was a creative consultant on Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film adaptation of the novel.

Meet Lance Dixon and Daniel Melvill Jones, your co-hosts of Border Walkers, as they discuss the inspiration behind the podcast, and their quest to find other sojourners who have traveled beyond the edge of culture wars and identity politics toward a common humanity.

The cohosts of Boarder Walkers are Lance Dixon, director of campus ministry at St Mary’s University (https://www.stmu.ca/lance-dixon/ ) and Daniel Melvill Jones, writer and student (http://www.danielmelvilljones.com/dmj).

Daniel’s podcast with his friend, Kyle Marshall, is called Assumptions.

Makoto Fujimura’s work can be found on his website, https://www.makotofujimura.com. His book is called Culture Care

Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life (https://www.ivpress.com/culture-care).

The authors Lance mentions are Rhonda Magee (https://www.rhondavmagee.com), Reva Siegel (https://law.yale.edu/reva-siegel), and Glenn Singleton (https://courageousconversation.com/about/).

The event Daniel mentioned on the Big Bang and faith featured Adam D. Hincks, SJ (https://www.stmu.ca/event/bigbang-faith/).

Lance’s four principles are 1) stay engaged, 2) expect discomfort, 3) speak your truth, and 4) accept non-closure.

Our three purposes for the Boarder Walker events and podcast are 1) to hear from others who are successfully embodying the Boarder Walker vocation, 2) to gather a community of Boarder Walkers, and 3) to create a space for rational discourse

To find details about our next live Boarder Walker and to join on Zoom, visit:

Boarder Walkers is created by Lance Dixon and Daniel Melvill Jones. This episode was written by Lance Dixon and Daniel Melvill Jones and edited by Lance Dixon.