What We Consider “Essential”
What a country considers essential tells us a lot about its culture. BBC, Coronavirus: The unexpected items deemed ‘essential’ “Pandemic shopping” …
Author Archives: R.H. (Rusty) Foerger
One Church Many Tribes
In time for National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21), I want to suggest a good book to introduce non-indigenous people …
“Removed” – Exposing the Ubiquitousness of Technology
Bored Panda reported on American photographer Eric Pickersgill who “photoshopped away the smartphones and digital devices from his portraits of …
Learning to Grow Old
I have been an old soul well before my time. But as I entered the third third of life, I realized …
Echoes from a Birmingham Jail
Addressed to his fellow clergy, Martin Luther King Jr. felt compelled to respond to a statement made by some clergy …
How Many Breaths are there in Nine Minutes?
It just won’t end, will it? How many more times do we have to see this? The recent case (May …
The Value of Personhood in a Pandemic
Crisis has a way of washing away respectable layers of hidden evaluations to expose what a person really values. This …
