The Tender Hope of Kneeling
What tender hope we’re invited into. When we practice confession in our work for justice, we find freedom to work for the healing of others at the same time we are healed.
Faith & Hope 5 Years After Haiti Earthquake
Every day as so many people keep working with hope to make better lives and change their own country, I find that my tattered hope keeps getting resurrected.
What Do You Want to Shape Your Soul?
MAY 21, 2014 | BY: KENT ANNAN -- The rain roars down. That season has arrived. The rain might as well be tears, drenching hundreds...
A Post-Disaster Reflection on Easter: “This is my body, broken for you”
APRIL 20, 2014 | BY: KENT ANNAN -- This Easter Sunday, we remember one of Kent’s reflections from the months right...
Poverty Is a Moral Problem: Why Bill Gates & Rick Warren Don't Have All the Answers
APRIL 10, 2014 | BY: KENT ANNAN -- I think we need rebalancing. A large share of the effort has been going to direct technical...
Amongst Sex Tourists, Slum-Dwellers, and New Friars: My Trip to Bangkok
SEPT 26, 2013 | BY: KENT ANNAN -- Standing in line in Bangkok's gleaming airport, I pass a smarmy man in his 60s who looks like a star...
3rd Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake…Remembering with Hope
BY: KENT ANNAN -- Three years after the Haiti earthquake, our hearts break still, For those whose wounds of loss won’t heal...
Bullshit National Grieving
A resounding gong, a clanging cymbal, bullshit: that is what this all-too-familiar national liturgy of grief is when it's acted out once again without having taken the available steps to avoid repeating this ...
5 God Excuses to Avoid After a Natural Disaster
BY: KENT ANNAN -- In a natural disaster aftermath, whether caused by hurricane or earthquake or...
What Can We Say? Theology for Murder and for Living
BY: KENT ANNAN --"Fred, " I ask in Creole last Friday in Port-au-Prince, "do you mind giving us...