And so I enter into the interweb, full of conflicted passions, aware of the injustice around me yet not quite sure what to do with it all. I don't know if I care for the revolution, but I admire the enthusiasm. I think I am more enamored with redemption, or at least what I am beginning to see what that means. Ours is an unjust world, filled with poverty, oppression, violence and sorrow. These things will not change, not to the degree to which I hope. They are components of our condition. May the words on this page, at the least, help me to process what I believe and how I am to respond. My hope is that you will partake in the process with me, fulfilling what Paulo Friere proclaims to be our human vocation: to name the world. Viva.
A few books over the last few years that have begun to challenge my paradigms:
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace
Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities
Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Robert D. Lupton, Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life
Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevarra: A Revolutionary Life
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains
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