Archive for January, 2009
Estan en Todas Partes
Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Lutheran World Relief.
“Development is the story behind the well.” That phrase says a lot. It’s shorthand for a critical principle I learned last year from Annastasia, who directs LWR Kenya. Her metaphor suggests that LWR’s influence goes beyond what can (and must!) be measured. Some of the impact resists any metrics, for example, the way we touch [...]
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Words Reconsidered
Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Lutheran World Relief.
“We encounter each other in words,” she spoke “into the winter air.” Barack Obama’s inaugural poet, Elizabeth Alexander, described the range of ways we speak to one another: “words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed; words to consider, reconsider.” Words to reconsider were spoken at another inauguration on 14 January 1963 (the day I was [...]
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Joy to THIS World: The Field of Faith
Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by Lutheran World Relief.
The season of “Joy to the World” is over till next year, but LWR is far from done harmonizing with its partners around the world. Together, we weed out those thorns that infest the ground, as the song says. Thorns of poverty yet plague this planet. Undesirable undergrowths of injustice choke people of the joy [...]
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A Daughter’s Remembrance
Posted on 13. Jan, 2009 by Lutheran World Relief.
Preaching a funeral sermon is never easy, but preaching the homily for one’s father would induce dread to many, never mind having a dad with the stature of the Rev. Dr. Robert J. Marshall (see Jan. 6 post). But moved by the Spirit of God and consistent with her dad’s inspiring leadership, the Rev. Margaret [...]
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Murder on New Year’s Eve
Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Lutheran World Relief.
A grenade attack in Atánquez ended much more than a New Year’s Eve celebration. It also ended the lives of Gloria, aged 66, Azael, aged 25, Marelvis, aged 45 and Maria-Teresa, aged 26. They are members of the indigenous Kankuamo people, a group under siege in a nation rocked by conflict. Since 1999 more than [...]
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“Hope Challenges the Futureto Outdo the Past”
Posted on 06. Jan, 2009 by Lutheran World Relief.
In Memoriam, Robert J. Marshall We add our voices to the choruses of remembrance sounding now for the Rev. Dr. Robert J. Marshall (1918-2008) Dr. Marshall passed away on Monday, December 22, 2008. For more than a quarter of a century, he lived his faith on the board of Lutheran World Relief, from1968 to 1994. [...]
