Kami L. Rice: Freelance Writer

based in Nashville, Tennessee, but world-traveled, I'm a writer for all seasons. and time zones. and continents. and media formats. and subjects. and more. (just not for all languages. sorry, there must be limits somewhere)

My Byline Online September 4, 2010

Enjoy these lovely links to selected articles I’ve written that are available online:

  • NEW! Eat, Pray, Love a Pilgrimage? (The High Calling Blogs, 27 August 2010): Two years ago I finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling Eat, Pray, Love while settling into a cozy and only sometimes chilly (but never, alas, poetically leaky) London garret, my new abode-for-three-months. I wanted to love the book and had been the one to suggest it to my Nashville writing group for our last meeting before I jaunted off again. // Fairly freshly returned from four months of covering stories for magazines and mission organizations in five African countries and from a month of doing the same in Haiti, I thought my traveler-writer self would find much in common with Gilbert as I settled into some months of writing from London. // But I didn’t. Or at least not as much as I expected. more
  • Helping Our Neighbor: CCCU Schools Respond to Haiti’s Crisis (CCCU Advance, Spring 2010): In the opening keynote address of the CCCU’s recent International Forum on Higher Education, Richard E. Stearns, president of World Vision Inc., exhorted attendees that “we are compelled by the gospel to enter the world’s pain, not retreat from it.” more
  • Women Who Lead the Way (CCCU Advance, Spring 2010): While CCCU schools have made progress in advancing women’s leadership, much opportunity still exists for improvement. more
  • Lauren Rolwing: Graphic Mischief (Nashville Arts Magazine, July 2010): In many ways, illustrator Lauren Rolwing embodies her art. Her uncluttered compositions hold an undercurrent of playfulness and whimsy beneath their intelligent designs. So it is with Rolwing: her enjoyable conversation is sprinkled with thoughtful references to the films she’s watched, the books she’s read, and the artists she’s been influenced by, while her youthful energy and fun spirit keep her words from dipping into inaccessible intellectualism. more
  • Beyond Ceremony & Courtesy: The rules of (cultural) engagement (BestSemester Magazine, Spring 2010; pages 18-21): At its core, the story of cultural engagement is about listening. It’s about living with and learning from. It’s about humility. And it’s about being willing to let go of deeply engrained assumptions about how Americans interact with the rest of the world. It’s about how these practices change our posture both abroad and at home. It’s not about helping others. It’s about living well alongside them. more
  • Philip Stosberg (Alumni Profile: Russian Studies, Univ. of KY College of Arts & Sciences, May 2010): Whatever stereotypes you have of Russian Studies graduates, Phillip Stosberg probably doesn’t fit them. He arrived at UK while a drummer for a Louisville-based chaotic punk band, The National Acrobat, that was sometimes touring nationally. Because he had to find practice space somewhere outside his dorm, living in the UK dormitories for two years was “like living in oblivion as far as drumming goes.” more
  • Where’s the Nearest Fire Extinguisher? (We the ‘Bistro, 14 October 2009): This afternoon I rushed into the small film production office somewhat late even though the gig’s short hours are very flexible. Currently this particular gig involves mailing out daily orders (calling it “fulfillment” makes it sound more impressive), and the Fed-Ex man who dictates my afternoon deadline was due in about 15 minutes. “Sorry I’m late,” I explained as I stepped inside. “I was putting out fires.” “How do you have fires to put out? You’re a writer,” Ian, the production manager guy, quipped a little seriously. more
  • Zimbabwe economic crisis cripples mission station (United Methodist News Service, 10 January 2008 ): The sewage system is overloaded, buildings are decaying, electricity is unreliable, and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe makes operating two schools, a hospital, a children’s home and church nearly impossible. Yet Old Mutare Mission, a ministry of The United Methodist Church for 110 years, is determined to continue its ministry to the people of Zimbabwe, its leaders say. more
  • Moving Pictures (Prism, July/August 2008 ): With a cloudless sky enclosing the islands of East Africa’s Lake Victoria in its azure dome, it’s easy to forget, from the vantage of a colorful wooden fishing boat on the lake, that there is a “rest of the world.” Sam Tsapwe, however, never seems to struggle with remembering the rest of the world, whether he’s ministering to people on these remote Lake Victoria islands or to people in Sudan, Uganda’s northern neighbor, or to people in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, where he lives. Standing 6 feet tall, Tsapwe is a solid man, both inside and out, and a dedicated servant of God. He is slow to speak and soft-spoken when he does, but he’s the kind of person one is willing to wait for and lean in to hear. more
  • I’ve uploaded additional articles here.

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