Several months ago I went grocery shopping on a day when I was especially distracted and distressed.  I realized as I was leaving the parking lot that I had left a bag of cereal and fresh fruit sitting in the cart in the parking lot when I loaded up.  I paused a moment to consider turning...

“To know love, to be love, to embrace love. That has been the work of the saints showing us the reign of God more fully. That is our work, as we seek to understand more clearly and to know the reign of God in this world as well as the next.”

This has been a week where knowing a little bit about history has seemed more important than usual.  The history of Palestine/Israel.  The history of British and European colonialism.  The history of U.S. machinations in the region.  The history of repeated traumas from wars, genocides,...