If you are feeling worried in these uncertain times, you are not alone. If you are filled with the desire to do something, to help, but you are aware of your limitations as you stay home for your safety and the safety of your community, you are not alone. These feelings of fear, uncertainty and the desire to do something were a main point of discussion this week when members of the Educate a Child Initiative gathered digitally for a meeting we were supposed to be having in person. Since its beginnings after the 221st General Assembly, the Educate a Child Initiative has been rooted in finding ways Presbyterians, can follow our rich history of supporting education by advocating locally and nationally for teacher and children. Through this work, we have sought quality education for all children and healthy work conditions for all educators and school employees.
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In June, I left for Austin, TX to begin a summer of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). I settled quickly into a rhythm, spending my days in the medical and surgical intensive care units of the biggest hospital in Austin. The hardest cases for me were the ones that offered no way out. I froze every time a patient said I can’t imagine what comes after this. As if the patient were looking into an oncoming nothing. I called these crises of imagination, and they haunted me then. But I’ve since discovered that real hope is, in fact, born of imagining nothing. As the literary critic Terry Eagleton has famously pointed out, when King Lear gloats that “nothing will come of nothing,” he is phenomenally wrong. “Something,” Eagleton continues, “if it is finally to emerge, can do so only from the ruins of some illusory all.” Hope, then, lives at the
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They have closed the schools for three weeks.
The children who are resilient go to their houses
(if they have them) to annoy their parents (if
they have them) because no one has
These feel like apocalyptic times. The streets that surround my apartment in Brooklyn are quiet. These streets are rarely quiet like this. Bars and restaurants are closed. The New York
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A Word of Caution for Human Rights Day December 6, 2011 by Patrick David Heery, an editorial They do not need a voice. They need a microphone. This December, Unbound offers a mini-issue for Human Rights Day, December 10, 2011, when people all across the world celebrate the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human
MoreAs we look across the different issues discussed in this series of articles in Unbound on the Doctrine of Discovery and how it relates to the Middle East today, one common theme emerges. Those of us who are white, American, and Christian have historically seen ourselves as special, as exceptional, and with particular privileges. This
MoreUnbound: What was your role in the education system? Charles: I was a college professor, teaching music history and related classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Unbound: At what type of school did you work? Charles: Over the course of my career, I taught at both public and private (evangelical Christian) universities. Unbound:
MoreA Response to the Foothills Presbytery from the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
This post was originally published as part of the Presbyterian Outlook’s coverage of the Foothills overtures at https://pres-outlook.org/2015/11/a-response-to-the-foothills-presbytery-from-the-advisory-committee-on-social-witness-policy-acswp/ Introduction The Presbytery of Foothills sent copies of several of its overtures to the Advisory Committee in June, after developing and circulating these proposals for some time. Our members have debated about responding, as our response may inevitably
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