Some months ago, the radio show This American Life profiled Meron Estefanos, a journalist who gets drawn into a web of Eritrean hostages in the Sinai peninsula. Beginning with one call, Estefanos eventually ends up devoting a huge portion of her days to talking to hostages who have been captured by people-smugglers and are given mobile […]
Sharing the suffering on the way to resurrection Read More »
About a year ago, there was this excellent satirical video that encouraged Africans to send heaters to Norway to help address the cold. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJLqyuxm96k&w=560&h=315] If all you knew about Norway was what you saw in those clips, you would think it was pretty awful, right? I have been thinking about that video as I read
What we talk about when we talk about “Africa” Read More »
For the last few days, I have been processing the news of the shooting at St. Peter’s, Ellicott City, a church I have visited and preached at on more than one occasion. The shooting resulted in the death of Mary-Marguerite Kohn, a priest I remember well. The church’s administrative assistant Brenda Brewington was also killed.
Remembering St. Peter’s, Ellicott City Read More »
Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re off “helping the poor” somewhere—soup kitchen, homeless shelter, outdoor church ministry, wherever. This is great. You’re participating in “mission,” which has become the buzziest buzzword in the church in recent years. But the focus has become the actual task at hand: making the sandwiches to feed the people
A Spirituality of Mission Read More »
