Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Protests in Ferguson, rallies in Hong Kong, and the Occupy Movement: People challenging systems and structures clamber for my attention. Should faithful followers of Jesus get involved in these political and economic wrangling?
My grandmother was doing some genealogical research on her maternal ancestors. This was quite some time after her mother had passed away….
The heat of Cairo in the summer can be unforgiving. When added to the smells in the garbage village, zeal melts into lethargy. I remember climbing the hill inside this garbage-collectors community to the Coptic Christian monastery where we lived with a team of American college students…
At the end of 2013, Pope Francis I released an exhortation he called Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) decrying free market capitalism which he described as an economy of exclusion and inequality. In doing so he stirred up a wasp’s nest of criticism….
In the 1980s New Zealanders Mick and Ruby Duncan chose to live among the desperately poor in one of Manila’s slum communities. It was not a popular road, or an easy one, but one they chose out of love for God and neighbor….