Colm McNaughton is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and storyteller. He is artistic director of Singing Blackbird Enterprises, a storytelling workers’ cooperative, part of the Earthworker ecosystem of worker cooperatives.
It was while hanging out with writer Charles Bowden for a few days, in the lush desert of Southern Arizona, that he asked me, 'Do you want to meet El Pastor?' El Pastor, Jose Antonio Galvan, is an evangelical Christian who runs an asylum for some of the mentally impaired and destroyed people from the city of Juarez. With my heart beating a little faster and my nerves starting to fray, I answered an unconvincing,…
