{"id":43459,"date":"2015-10-24T23:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43459"},"modified":"2017-03-05T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T22:33:16","slug":"playing-and-praying-at-wild-goose-student-kenji-kuramitsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43459","title":{"rendered":"Playing and Praying at Wild Goose \u2014 Student Kenji Kuramitsu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Playing and Praying at Wild Goose \u2014 Student Kenji Kuramitsu<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The “CURE” for Your Vocation<\/a>
\nMcCormick Theological Seminary<\/a>
\nChicago, Illinois
\n2015-08-26<\/p>\n

Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I had heard of Wild Goose Festival<\/a> from friends who had braved the woods in years past, but I wasn\u2019t sure it was my kind of thing. I certainly didn\u2019t expect to be a part of the gathering anytime soon. Then my friend Micky asked me to attend. She wanted to know if I would speak on a panel she was moderating, and invited me to present my own workshop as well.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know what I would find in Hot Springs, North Carolina<\/a> other than spending a few days camping out, thinking about God, smiling, and playing music with a bunch of progressive, hippie Christians, many of whom I was only tangentially connected to on social media. I was nervous, but I wanted to see what this festival was all about, and as a lifelong Boy Scout, I felt like I could handle myself in the woods. I told Micky I would come.<\/p>\n

I spent the next few weeks trying to think of something productive to contribute to the \u201cRevolutionary Love and Militant Nonviolence\u201d panel that I would speak on with clergy and racial justice advocates Leah Gunning-Francis<\/a>, Traci Blackmon<\/a>, and Ethan Vessley-Flad<\/a>, publically reflecting on our involvement in the Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement as the one year anniversary of Mike Brown\u2019s death<\/a> approaches. For my own workshop, I created an hour long presentation<\/a> exploring how both traditional theological teachings about Christ and contemporary critical mixed race theory can empower multiethnic and mixed race people to live whole, integrated lives…<\/p>\n

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