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The Struggle for Freedom
This blog follows on from the previous…. The topic of freedom and democracy is challenging systems and thinking around the world right now. Many would confess that the world seems very conflictual, unsettling, and insecure. Freedom is easy to paste on a slogan, democracy is a dream for many, and for most, both are concepts…
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What a Contrast
It’s been a while. Partly because our present climate and culture is increasingly challenging to know how to address with any sense of integrity, hope, or truthfulness. What is even greater cause for despair is that the Christian voice, once a clarion call for justice has been either silenced, intimidated, divided, distracted, or hijacked. The…
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Wise Men and Women
Bethlehem has cancelled Christmas in the midst of war, rubble, killing, and tragedy. Despite all the turmoil, the cruelty, the politics, the wars, the uncertainty of being human, the historic message of Bethlehem remains. Two thousand years ago angels announced to shepherds in a field outside the city that a child was born, unlike any…
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Peace on Earth
Seems like we really need to hear the message: Peace on Earth. It can be troubling, even depressing, to read the news and witness the violence around the world, even from afar. Has everyone gone mad? Until, unfortunately we step back and realize, to our dismay, that the world has always been in turmoil. I…
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Hostages
It is always good news when prisoners are set free. The universal characteristic shared by all humanity is the anxiety felt when loved ones are in danger, and the absolute joy when families are reunited – Palestinian or Jew. Exquisite moments of embrace, tears, and laughter. In the sameness of it all, whether in Gaza…
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Take the Time
We are living in turbulent times. Rather than running for cover and allowing fear and imagination to run riot as we nibble on scattered bits and pieces tossed out here and there, it may help to take the time to explore, learn, dig deeper. There’s so much I don’t know. I always begin with my…
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Where is the Good Samaritan?
Imagine you are reading this blog and there’s a knock at the door. Voices are raised and the knocking grows more insistent. Before you know it the door has been kicked down and you are dragged away in handcuffs. It’s the beginning of the rest of your life. You will never return to your home,…
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Parades and Prayers
War is the strongest manifestation of human weakness. War testifies to a profound flaw in the human psyche with complicated roots: in perhaps a selective memory regarding history, a lust for power and domination, and a profound insecurity in finding compromise and living with differences (even those that are irreconcilable). Today we are witnesses to…
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