"The remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story." -Tim O'Brien

27 September 2011

It isn't always black and white

OnFire: the young united methodist justice movement: It isn't always black and white: As the events of the past week remind us, discrimination based upon race, ethnicity and religion remains present and alive in the United States and in our world. From the heartbreaking execution of Troy Davis to the continued occupation in the Middle East, the headlines are full of stories that threaten to overwhelm our hope and our faith in a grace-filled and loving God...

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  1. Fysh Phoenix--October 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM

    I was so accustomed to seeing racism in its subtle forms that it became surreal, to me, to see it in its most overt form and be forced to recognize how much racism is part of the injustice that is happening in my context.

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