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Beauty as deep as the need

On March 23, 2020 By peregrineinaslumIn Rule Like Gentiles, Stranger Stories2 Comments

A post by Peregrine In the face of the ugliness I know is more visible, I ask myself, "What do I find beautiful in our city?" Yes big gorgeous cow eyes everywhere, living with gecko friends on our walls....but deeper underneath there is more, more I believe anyone will see and appreciate and be humbled …

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Giving and receiving

On May 21, 2019May 18, 2019 By peregrineinaslumIn Rule Like Gentiles, Stranger StoriesLeave a comment

A post by Peregrine Occasionally something happens in the basti that just so encourages and delights me as a picture of God's dream for the world, already happening in a place of "poverty". I was visiting a Muslim neighbor in her mud-floor hut, one of the poorest that I know well. She was having stomach …

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baby and twins in the slum

God moves towards Life

On November 5, 2018 By peregrineinaslumIn Christians and Power, Rule Like GentilesLeave a comment

A post by Peregrine It wasn't long after we returned back to India with our little Sakeenah that I had the realization that I'd been judging the traditional custom here of "peeing" babies. I'd seen mothers holding their tiny children in a squat over the drain outside, making a "shuuu shuuu" sound, and I thought …

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Expanding vision

On January 1, 2018January 31, 2018 By peregrineinaslumIn Christians and Power, Rule Like Gentiles1 Comment

A post by Peregrine Around 9th grade or so when we were starting to explore career options in school, I considered being an architect, then found creativity too stressful for me and went the route of engineering. My parents, who are both engineers, begged me to go the medical route instead, but I felt my …

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Girl in pink dress pats down disarmed soldier

Peregrine gets in the way

On November 11, 2017November 11, 2017 By peregrineinaslumIn Die by the Sword, Nonviolent Interventions2 Comments

A post by Peregrine As I was walking on a city street I saw a fight in progress. One man grabbed a long stick and chased another man to beat him. A third came in and also took a stick and started to beat the victim. My first thought was “Stranger uses his size to …

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The crash of transition

On October 20, 2017January 25, 2018 By peregrineinaslumIn Rule Like Gentiles, Stranger Stories3 Comments

A post by Peregrine. Today I look back on it as my first of two Dark Night of the Soul seasons. At the time, I despaired my plummeting capacity to even be alive, my desperation for support, understanding, and air in the suffocating heat, my experience of myself as only a burden on those I …

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Who are we?

Stranger: A stranger who has chosen to plant himself in community with the urban poor.

Peregrine: A fellow traveler who made the same choice and married Stranger.

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