Field Notes

Ep 24: Soohwan Park – Sustainable activism and the prayer-driven life

July 21, 2022 Season 1 Episode 24
Field Notes
Ep 24: Soohwan Park – Sustainable activism and the prayer-driven life
Show Notes

How do we sustain our physical, mental and spiritual health when we are expending ourselves for justice? How can we face the reality of the world's problems and not be crushed? 

Soohwan has spent much of her working life up close and personal with suffering on a scale most of us only see on a TV screen. From the Dalit of Bangladesh to the fall out of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, she's spent significant time in places and with people facing severe challenge. In an airport one day she was struck by the dead expression in the eyes of many of older fellow travellers and knew she didn't want to turn into them one day, so she quit her job and turned her attention to the task of prayer. A Rocha International is blessed to have her as its prayerful board chair.