Brendan Curran

• Provide pastoral/spiritual care, preaching, teaching, community organizing, and administrative leadership.
• Founded Peace Table Dinners: a monthly community dinner/educational forum on peace and justice issues and local food sovereignty initiatives.
• Served on the board of Home Plate Youth Services from 2021 to 2022.

• Since 2022, I have a taught a course titled, "Spirituality and Social Justice," at Pacific University during the winter term.

• Founding Member
• Co-facilitated study group focused on exploring the educational philosophy of Paulo Freire.
• helped organize/participated in Joker Training Cohort in the summer of 2021 and winter of 2022.
• co-facilitated Theater of the Oppressed workshop, "Embodied Peace and Justice," in March of 2024. Presented The Gaza Monologues at the Forest Grove United Church of Christ in collaboration with the ASHTAR Theatre in Ramallah, Palestine.

• Provided spiritual counseling and interfaith pastoral care to students, faculty, staff, and university leadership.

Organized service learning trip o US-Mexico Border in partnership with "Borderlinks," and "No More Deaths."

Organized service learning trip to Dine' Bikeya in partnership with the Black Mesa Water Coalition to support the Navajo Food Sovereignty Project.

Organized water vigils for Water is Life RI as part of their successful campaign to stop the privatization of RI's drinking water.

Joined encampment of Water Protectors at Standing Rock Oct.-Nov. 2016

Served on the racial justice task force of the RI Conference of the United Church of Christ and co-facilitated anti-racist education trainings for UCC congregations in RI. 2015-2020

• I apprenticed as a puppeteer and performed in cardboard operas, pageants, and circuses during the summers of 2006 to 2013.

Lineage-bearing folklorist and storyteller of the Ó Corráin family of Bhailte Ó Síoda, Trá Lí, Chiarraí, Poblacht na hÉireann.

-Irish earth and ancestor based storyteller in dialogue with other earth and ancestor based lineages in relationship with...

Ile Orunmila Afedefeyo 2016-present as an IFA practitioner.

-and Titlakawan as a group member/danzante in La Danza Azteca 2020-present.

Cambridge Zen Center resident 2003-2010. I remain active as a dharma teacher organizing Zen Groups in my ministerial contexts.