In human history there seems to be two broad forms of what we do with remembering. One is we respond with gratitude and build a better life. The other is we respond with grievance and violence.
Recollecting, remembering, these are often the beginning of prayer for me.
The article recollects for me a series of interviews of indigenous people from the US thinking about Columbus, and of course what Palestinians remember both before and after the Nakba.
I also admit some hesitation. I’m not always sure if my own memory is right - or complete. In its comprehensiveness, I believe scripture offers multiple ways to understand God’s providence, and that reveals how even the people central to our spiritual life - Abraham, Jacob, David, were not always persons worth emulating.
So true. All we have in life are imperfect saints and heroes. Becket is one of my favorites. James Kiefer wrote, “The chief moral that I draw from Thomas's life and death is that when a man seeks to serve God, God graciously accepts that service, even if the man is quite wrong about what it is that God expects of him.”
In human history there seems to be two broad forms of what we do with remembering. One is we respond with gratitude and build a better life. The other is we respond with grievance and violence.
Recollecting, remembering, these are often the beginning of prayer for me.
The article recollects for me a series of interviews of indigenous people from the US thinking about Columbus, and of course what Palestinians remember both before and after the Nakba.
I also admit some hesitation. I’m not always sure if my own memory is right - or complete. In its comprehensiveness, I believe scripture offers multiple ways to understand God’s providence, and that reveals how even the people central to our spiritual life - Abraham, Jacob, David, were not always persons worth emulating.
So true. All we have in life are imperfect saints and heroes. Becket is one of my favorites. James Kiefer wrote, “The chief moral that I draw from Thomas's life and death is that when a man seeks to serve God, God graciously accepts that service, even if the man is quite wrong about what it is that God expects of him.”