by Tom DeWolf | May 19, 2009 | Coming to the Table
Great news for everyone connected with, and supporting, the Coming to the Table program. The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University recently announced that the Fetzer Institute and the Kellogg Foundation have collaborated to provide...
by Tom DeWolf | May 17, 2009 | Coming to the Table, Trauma and Healing
If one set out to design a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law. -Judith Lewis Herman One of the failures of the criminal justice system in the United States is that the needs of victims have been...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 27, 2009 | Appearances by Tom, Coming to the Table, History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
There is something about being in the physical space of where historical events took place that is far more impacting than reading about that history. Standing at the Door of No Return at Elmina dungeon in Ghana, being mere feet from where Dr. King died at the...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 27, 2009 | Coming to the Table, Trauma and Healing
I’ve just completed my third week-long class at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Last October I participated in the first level STAR training (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience) and wrote about it here. This week was STAR II;...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 12, 2009 | Appearances by Tom, Coming to the Table
Just when I think I know something for sure I find out–once again–that it ain’t necessarily so. I flew to Denver Wednesday thinking that the reason I was coming was to meet with a reading club, speak at Metro College, Denver Eclectics, Mapleton...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 18, 2009 | Coming to the Table, History, Genealogy
Fifty years ago today, February 18, 1959, twenty three African American students walked into Warren County High School in Front Royal, Virginia for the first time. A young girl, Betty Kilby, was the plaintiff in the 1958 case brought to desegregate Warren County...
