Posts Tagged ‘solidarity’

Discovering Healing Waters on a Summer Day in Central Park

Last week, a friend and I were exploring Central Park in New York City. We stopped to rest by a cool fountain in the center of the park. My sister Mary and my colleague Mary Beth, both battling cancer, were very much on my mind. As we sat by the ...Read More

Violence Can’t Have the Last Word

Even as we celebrate the hope of the Risen Lord, we have been confronted again with the darkness of hatred and violence. As people of faith, our response to such acts perpetrated by a handful of depraved and misguided human beings cannot be pessimism.   Rabbi David Wolfe offered this thought on ...Read More

An African Christmas

“In Africa, there is not so much the giving of presents, but the giving of presence.” (Jon Blanc: Out to Africa Too web site)   On my first trip to Africa, I experienced first-hand the truth of Jon’s words. I was in Sierra Leone, West Africa. It was December 2003; the truce that ...Read More