"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 April 2012

A Hope. A Prayer. A Dream.

Methodist Federation on Social Action: My undergraduate degree was in International Relations and International Politics. Yet my campus minister liked to joke that in addition to our ‘official’ degrees, we were also being awarded degrees in United Methodism. In reconciling. In love. In advocacy. 

There is a natural convergence of these ‘degrees.’ A natural convergence of the issues which are addressed within the realm of International Relations and a Global Church: Environmental policy, nuclear energy, the Israel/Palestine conflict, the war in Afghanistan, political relations with China, peace and conflict resolution. These are not only political and diplomatic governmental concerns, but also political, diplomatic, theological, spiritual and religious concerns....
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