“I’m so sorry to hear about Benita’s death.” Those words forced their way into my consciousness after I was awakened by a cell phone at 2 in the morning. After I groggily told my friend that Benita wasn’t dead, he gasped, apologized and hung up. I was left sitting in my bed, under my mosquito [...]
Catherine Piwang is no stranger to suffering. She lost nine of her siblings to HIV/AIDS. After returning to Uganda after living in the U.S., she realized that an entire generation was missing because of HIV/AIDS. Catherine devoted her life to helping thousands of children and elderly people in Uganda find healing from the loss of [...]
“We should all see the world from the perspective of the victim, to know what it is like to see the world from down there.” Doris Salcedo Our world is replete with a power that drives us to create divisions with others — a destructive line that divides you and me. That power is presented [...]
The coming judgment of Christ will not be based on the works of the perpetrator but on the “suffering of the sufferers,” according to Jürgen Moltmann. In his newest book, Sun of Righteousness Arise, he writes, “The image of the end-time ‘fire’ has nothing to do with the stake or with the apocalyptic destruction of [...]
About a year ago, as I was walking through the streets of Kathmandu one afternoon, a friend approached me. He began telling me of a woman he knew who was pregnant but did not have the means to support the baby after it was born. He wanted to see if there was anything I could [...]
When I first started here in the WMF Omaha office, Daphne (my director then) made sure I took time for formational reading and growing in issues awareness. So I read, I watched, I learned. I came to understand why we have a field in Sierra Leone and learned stories of the civil war that destroyed [...]