“He is not my enemy,” he said. I asked again, “Which animal is your enemy then?” “It's me,” he answered.

Often, I feel the need to lose my salvation, at least the version that I try to control comfortably. Not due to its lack of reality or beauty, but because I tend to tame it. To capture it. To colonize it. To memorialize it and construct a tower out of it...

If we want to experience the fulness of God’s love and be healed, we have to take the risk of being vulnerable, building relationships that are mutual and based on grace not compulsion.

2025 Commencement Address: "A Journey of Indigenous Values and Spirituality Today"

Safi Kaskas was awarded with a Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) at St. Stephen's University, NB Canada - 04-30-2025. Safi also received SSU's prestigious "Peace & Justice Legacy Award." Present with him were his wife, Eman, and daughter, Maha.