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Ashley Makar

Killing the Buddha editor Ashley Makar is a writer who is working towards a Master of Divinity, Religion and the Arts, at Yale Divinity School. She is currently developing a prison project for KtB and working on non-fiction writing about Sudanese refugees who have migrated from Egypt to Israel. She has published essays in The Birmingham News, American Book Review, Search, and Prison Legal News. She thanks the goddess of door hinges for the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writers Workshop and repents not her trespasses through the Irish bogs of Connemara.
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The Hazards of Chanukah

The Hazards of Chanukah

by Ashley Makar
confession
Getting the Christ Out of Christmas

Getting the Christ Out of Christmas

by Ashley Makar

What would Jesus do with leftovers?

damNation
Strangers In The Bible Belt and The Holy Land

Strangers In The Bible Belt and The Holy Land

by Ashley Makar

Immigration legislation in Alabama and Israel.

dispatch
A Refugee Passover in Israel

A Refugee Passover in Israel

by Ashley Makar

From strangers in the land of Egypt to infiltrators in Zion.

confession
Lent: Season of Our Hypocrisy

Lent: Season of Our Hypocrisy

by Ashley Makar

From to-do lists to angels in the wilderness.

damNation
Mercy

Mercy

by Ashley Makar

Hope, apprehension, and the revolution in Egypt.

KtBlog
Cautious Optimism in Cairo

Cautious Optimism in Cairo

by Ashley Makar
KtBlog
Cairo: Water Cannons and Wikileaks

Cairo: Water Cannons and Wikileaks

by Ashley Makar
KtBlog
Taking the Christ Out of Christmas

Taking the Christ Out of Christmas

by Ashley Makar
witness
Homeless for the Holidays

Homeless for the Holidays

by Ashley Makar

Searching for a friend gone missing—or is he?

KtBlog
God, Jumanji, and a Buick Skyhawk

God, Jumanji, and a Buick Skyhawk

by Ashley Makar
KtBlog
The Heart of Dixie in Jerusalem

The Heart of Dixie in Jerusalem

by Ashley Makar
KtBlog
Heaven Is the Common Denominator

Heaven Is the Common Denominator

by Ashley Makar
witness
Imagining Prisons

Imagining Prisons

by Ashley Makar

From a Protestant monastery to the prison-industrial complex.

 
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