Following Jesus in rejecting empire
I thought it might be a good exercise to push beyond the Covid and US election headlines just to stay in touch with the reality that there is a world outside these big news items. I understand that the US election will have global ramifications. And I know that the current pandemic is a very…
I’m grateful for the current groundswell of interest for those people serving in our retirement homes, grocery stores and health care facilities. We are giving tremendous shout-outs to people in service sector jobs like farm workers and bus drivers. There are homemade signs and commercials celebrating people in essential manufacturing jobs, such as those making…
I consider myself a patient man. It comes naturally to me. I think I must be hard wired for patience. I remember one day as a child of about seven-years-old. Mom was talking to a neighbor in our backyard and I was standing next to her. “Mom?” I asked. “Just wait a minute, Scotty, I’m…
Years ago, I was in the downtown Eastside of Vancouver, a very troubled corner of North America with some of the highest rates of homelessness and intravenous drug use. I was hanging out with an intentional community that had located themselves in this neighborhood as agents of grace and beauty and change. One night, I…
The world just got a whole lot smaller. Whether you live in Milan, Italy or Moline, Illinois; York, England or New York, New York; Johannesburg, California or Johannesburg, South Africa, we are all now sheltering in place and watching a pandemic sweep the globe. I don’t want to minimize the disparities here. One look at…