Our Moral Duty – June 10, 2022
“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.” ―Etty Hillesum, “29 September”, in An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943 and […]
Am I the One?
I was living in Port-au-Prince in 2015 when Hurricane Matthew crashed into Haiti’s southern peninsula. News trickled in of the devastation, and my colleagues and I began gathering truckloads of food, medical supplies, and construction materials to send down with our team of volunteers. “Are you going with them?” A friend asked.“Oh no,” I said. […]