Where are we finding hope these days? In these days of increasing calamities, absurd politics, the disintegration of our democracy in Arizona, the US and the world, it is difficult to find rays of hope. And yet, it turns out, that is my job. What I am wishing for the most is that we can

“I’m not interested in a pretty covenant with all the right words that sits dusty on a shelf. Give me a covenant with smudge marks, and coffee stains, and marked out words and added words and tear stains. Give me a covenant that makes us stretch for a lifetime and into the next generation.”  —Rev.