The Root – Aug. 3, 2020
“I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn’t care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He’s still going to make these hikes, he’d insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you’re saying that their lives matter less than some others’, and […]
More Than a Meal
After getting the awful news that his cousin John, the baptizer, had been killed, Jesus slipped away in a boat to a quiet place to grieve and pray and plan.* Seeing a great multitude make their way to where he was heading, a wave of compassion fell across his bow. Back to his healing work […]
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. […]
