Viral Faith

 "In the face of injustice, neutrality can never be an option. Silence makes the uncommitted bedfellows with hatred and racism--whether they like it or not."      --Miguel A. De La Torre in Burying White Privilege The violent entice their neighbors and lead them in a way that is not good. One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the lips brings evil to pass.   Proverbs 16:29-30 NRSV   Remember Patrick Wood Crusius? You remember the impact Patrick made in August of 2019? Most people have long forgotten the name and face of Patrick and his actions on August 3rd, 2019.  You are not alone if you are still struggling to remember.   Maybe his face will ring a bell: Anything? Patrick is a 23 year old who drove 650 miles to El Paso Texas to murder "Mexicans" because of his belief in one of the numerous replacement theories that believe that people of color are seeking to "replace" White Americans.  Patrick wrote a ma...

"Many churches during the genocide became places of death instead of places of life" Bishop Samuel Kayinamera, Free Methodist Church of Rwanda Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.  I Corinthians 10:6-7 I recently spent two weeks in the beautiful country of Rwanda.  Its hills, lakes and people make it a visually stunning place to witness and a loving place to experience..  It is a small, densely populated land locked nation in Central-Eastern Africa that has an agricultural basis of life that is often resource challenged.  Subsistence living is the way of life for the vast majority of Rwanda's people. Beneath the smiles, the tremendous hospitality, exuberant worship, and the sense of national hope, lies the horrific wound of genocide 18 years ago.  In this festering action from April through July of 1994, nearly 2 million of the 8 million inhabitants of Rwanda were systematically killed, ...