Travels – Take Off Your Shoes

Where We Walk Now

February 8, 2019 Marie Noelle Duquette

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a

Dallas at Dawn

November 14, 2018 Marie Noelle Duquette

It’s chillier here than I expected. I picked up a purple hoodie emblazoned on the front with a graphic Route 66, at a Texas-sized truck

Day 1 / Part 1 LOFG Caravan

November 12, 2018 Marie Noelle Duquette

Early Monday We met in the dark at the Temple, our group of 7 women and two men. Standing in the cold, circled by a

Let Our Families Go!

November 10, 2018 Marie Noelle Duquette

On Monday at dawn, I’m driving with a caravan of Interfaith leaders and lay people to Tornillo, Texas to witness what is happening in the

Cupcakes, Cages, & College / DC Travelogue, Day 2

November 10, 2017 Marie Noelle Duquette

Rahim Buford spoke to us, at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, from within his 3’ cage in the corner of the conference room. His poetry traced the

Trip to DC Travelogue / Getting There

November 7, 2017 Marie Noelle Duquette

The first installment of my travelogue as I go to Washington DC this week for the Unity Conference.

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I notice connections between people, events, movies, music, writings, the spoken word, that seem independent of one another. I write and speak about these connections because I have been created for this work and it has the potential to draw people together and transform rough places into plains of peace. I was a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for twenty years. I remain a writer whose muse is active and insistent; a lover of new experiences; a dreamer of old. I am fueled by both music and silence; I appreciate truths that can only be conveyed in whispers, if in any language at all. I have more friends than I deserve, a big fat french family I adore, a partner whose love inspires my days. We share a cozy condo with our dog Nala, and cat, Picasso. My most palpable experience of God's presence took place in a chapel in Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In that place, where every great world religion was depicted by both name and symbol, a miracle took shape in 2005 that continues to inform my faith today. I believe the key to world peace is our willingness to understand one another and take the risks required to do that. My two sons are some of God's finest work; they are a blessing to me and to the world. I thank God for every single day of this wonder we know as life. And I thank you, for stopping by to take off your shoes and step into the shoes of those whose stories I am privileged to tell.

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