Who do you long to sit with and receive holy guidance from? How might we collectively, given the various communities we serve and make time for, participate with integrity and authority in Kingdom-building?

We need to revisit our past to bear the weight of the present. The burden is necessary, if we are to remain a democracy. The burden is necessary, if Christians are to read the Bible faithfully, where the earthly powers are more prone to agendas that eclipse the biblical call to be wary of Empire and for us to align more closely with those who are left at the margins.

At Passover, our annual joy of recollecting our freedom must respectfully acknowledge its tragic cost. The Midrash reminds us that in each of the sinking Egyptians was at least a speck of good. It is up to us to find that speck in each other before we all end up at the bottom of the sea together.

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It can feel like what is happening in Washington is a galaxy away and that we can do little to affect it, but what we do in our local communities matters a great deal. What matters most is that we do not cease to build.