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uie alternative community were in evidence, as well as a number of young twenty-something men and women, including several interns at Waterpenny Farm. Some came because it sounded interesting; a Kenyan priest, with stories of a very different life far away. Some came because they were attracted to some notion of a primal connection to nature to be found in an African holy man who has spent years ministering way out amongst nomads. Some came to see a fellow Christian, a missionary with tales of carrying the Word to the farthest reaches of the world. Most likely many were there for several or all of these reasons at once.
Ecumenical event
Religiouslv it was an ecumenical event; a reaching out of the hands in friendship to other faiths and to other people. And socially it was a reaching out, a meeting of the minds in that very old liberal tradition of celebrating the outsider.
The stories Father Baraza told, and the message he wove within them echoed that broad minded sentiment and sympathy for mankind as well.
He told a simple story. It was the story of his own life, and what he's been doing. In that story was the appeal and joy of hearing about a life that is staftlingly different from our own, but at the same time, in his relations to people, in all the important matters of life, just like us. Like all good stories, his were not exactly what anyone expected, or imagined they might be.
What's in a name?
After telling the audience, “I have come here not to teach you but to learn from you,” Father Baraza began by telling the group the story of his own name. He told us that Patrick, is of course, his Christian name. But as for his other two names: “A baby is named for what is happening when he is bom. I was
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