Fiction:

• The Escape of Joan Miró (Short fiction)
• The End of Innocence (Best-selling novel, Sourcebooks, 2014)

Article

Article written by Yonat Shimron about the military reconciliation park I helped build, 2017-2020 (it was a team effort, and I was the top executive)

• Article on Rick’s Place, a grassroots military community in Duke’s Faith & Leadership

Nonfiction:

Essays about why we bother

• Life’s Green Flags
• Why I believe we are here (it’s my guess as no one truly knows)

Essays about why or how we persevere in tough times

• The lecture that changed my life (by teaching me not to be cynical)
• The existential relevance of the dad joke
• Grading myself on courage
• Encouraging the heart in dark times (590 AD)

Essays about working with challenging people

• How to work with non-accountable people who take advantage of your integrity
• Seeing “unfortunate others” with clear eyes
• Not forcing forgiveness
• Reconciliation in a Selma, Alabama swimming pool

Essays in Duke University’s Faith and Leadership award-winning site (2009-2011)

White papers that translate Western practices in to their native spiritual concepts

White Papers on Human-Centered Innovation: The Bright Human Spirit Series (2012)

1. Part 1: The New Phase of Innovation: Complexity, Purpose & Meaning-Making
2. Part 2: Making Meaning
3. Part 3: Practicing Life and Innovation

Click here for short videos on miscellaneous topics available on my YouTube channel, 2017-2022

Reconciliation heroes

What does it mean to build a new social and moral imagination? Can we really get beyond a toxic environment?

Here are my favorite resources for people who wish to promote a hopeful vision of reconciliation.

• U.N. Human Rights Prize Winner Angelina Atyam, Uganda
• U.N. Human Rights Prize Winner, the late Catholic church bishop Paride Taban’s Holy Kuron Peace Village
• Marguerite Barankitse’s Maison Shalom, Opus prize winner for the Top Faith-Based Social Entrepreneur, and Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity
• John Finley IV and Epiphany School
• Dr. Ray Barfield, a pediatric palliative care doctor (St. Judes & Duke)
•  Farmer Food Share
• The L’Arche Communities of the disabled
• Thich Nhat Hahn 
• The prison tennis program at San Quentin
• Jock Brandis of The Full Belly Project