By Kristine Blaess
In 1992, President Václav Havel of Czechoslovakia wrote an Opinion piece for The New York Times that electrified its readership. “The end...
By Dane Neufeld
New Year’s Eve offers a window into the overlapping but often divergent interests of the Church calendar and the secular calendar. While...
What might it reasonably look like for the witness of Christian disciples to change the world in a way that is appropriately modest, that is, short of presuming to build Jerusalem?
The image of leadership being valorized in both the Church and the society in our time is the leader who can play the changes fortissimo. But is it not also important to be able to play softly?
We are in the midst of a quieter kind of "mfecane," a great churning. We need to raise our heads and notice the series of dramatic changes that we are living through.
I am hardly suggesting that “staying” — in a job, in a parish, in a denomination, in a city, with an institution — is always the right thing to do, only that, for Christians, change rather than stability bears the burden of proof, a burden that can be satisfied, but is borne nonetheless.
