Better than a Bailout

At first glance, maybe it doesn’t seem like male initiation belongs on a site about alternative economics. Thinking back to a time when I knew nothing of initiation and had not yet completed my rites in the Arizona desert a few months ago, I might have only thought of initiation as something that college frat boys or gangs do to prove a candidate’s worthiness. Images of hazing and abuse came to mind. And of course, those rites can be dangerous and deadly. Not so with the Mens’ Rites of Passage (MROP) put on by Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation. I felt a pull toward that program and let it speak to me for nearly a year before I found myself taking part. But interestingly, my time in the orbit of JEM helped pave the way.

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