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Why Aren’t We All Jumping Off Bridges?
Why aren’t we all jumping off bridges? Sometimes I wonder about that. This week-end, I watched two movies. One is a new release and one was a hit sixteen years ago. Seeing them on the same week-end made me think about how our culture is hurtling forward to strange and uncertain places. Up in the …[ read more ]
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Compassion Fatigue – Hope for the Hardening Heart
When I was eight years old, I spent a sunny Saturday reading alone in the stacks of the public library. The book I read told an unbelievable story, a horrible but true story about events that happened in my parents’ lifetime in Germany. I could barely take it in but I also couldn’t turn away. …[ read more ]