Hope, in a world gone wrong
Proper 26 Luke 21: 5-19 I came across an article this week entitled “What is wrong with the world?”. It gave a few suggestions: - Tribalism – the sort of nationalism which oppresses others - The lack of a common vision for good - Inequality of wealth and resources – which leads to envy and hatred - Lack of love for people who are ‘not like us’. I know that the same author has written, too, about the importance for the world of forgiveness, faith in God and love for the widest possible definition of family. He’s also written one of the hymns in our hymnbook – "O God of earth & altar" – it’s GK Chesterton, author of the Father Brown stories, and a convert to Catholicism. His article ‘what is wrong with the world?’ was written in 1910. It feels as though there is ...