We have now entered 2025. I love the freshness of a new year, the way it can signal a new beginning and new hope. Sadly, yesterday in various places in the world including New Orleans in the USA there were acts of violence. For all of us, it can be a challenge to hold onto… Read More A New Beginning in 2025
2050 is not far away. Only twenty six years from now. I’ll be 91 years old, and hopefully still kicking. As I write this today, there is a global outage of some internet systems causing over 5,000 flights to be cancelled. In Bangladesh over 100 have died in a series of protests over university enrollment… Read More The World in 2050: Finding Hope in the Future Amidst Present Struggles
Sometimes there are seasons when the need to express lament for personal or group pain seems even more acute. In recent weeks, our mission agency endured the worst accident in its history, with eleven key leaders killed in Tanzania. One of them we had known quite closely for about thirty years. Others were known to… Read More Do you feel at times like broken pieces? Lament is expressed in different ways
A phrase has been coming to my mind for 2024 as this year draws rapidly to an end: Stay in your lane. It may just be advice for me, but perhaps it might resonate for you. Most of us have experienced the irritation or even terror of being behind or near or opposite another driver… Read More Stay in your lane in 2024
What a year. We started 2021 with covid uncertainty globally, and 2022 starts much the same. But there is good news also with vaccinations increasing and economic recovery happening in many nations. Personally this was a very difficult year with the death of several friends due to the virus both in India and the USA,… Read More There is hope for a tree (and you) in 2022
Two weeks from tomorrow is the first day of 2022. As I write this post, uncertainties and anxieties about the existing and new variants of covid-19 continue to cloud the new year outlook. Recently I’ve been reading an excellent book on the first three hundred years of the Christian Church, The Patient Ferment of the… Read More The Corrective of a Long View of History
The future is a scary place. Especially when hope is scarce and fear is allowed to run rampant. I hear and read of so much fear right now. It comes from across the political spectrum, both from the right and from the left. And sadly the Church is caught up in it all, not often… Read More Dueling Nightmares of the Future from Right and Left
With just over four months to go until the USA Presidential election, the apocalyptic language has begun. Have you seen it? It can go like this: if my party/candidate doesn’t win the election, it will be the end of the world! Or the end of civilization as we know it! Or in more religious language… Read More Will it be the end of the world if your candidate doesn’t win in November?
Weren’t the struggles of Covid-19 enough? The lockdowns, the layoffs, the careers and dreams postponed or ended. And just as the impatience for a new normal grew to a breaking point, three weeks ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota happened. George Floyd. Protests grew by the day, demands for change that are not new. And they still… Read More Trust in the slow work of God
The uncertainty of what is ahead only seems to increase. With some nations or states beginning a careful process of re-opening, planning for the last half of the year remains difficult. I was on a zoom call today (fighting the zoomed out syndrome as usual now) and virtually the whole time was developing contingency plans… Read More Questions for an Unknown Future
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