When the world we live in shifts, our response to it changes. Right down to this blog. Let’s be specific:
This will be the last in the “Maps Change Things” series. Declining health requires that I give up this enjoyable way of keeping in touch with you on things that matter. Make no mistake: my farewell goes with deep appreciation for the connection we have.
Is This Dynamic Debate Now Changing?
Ever long for the day when senseless violence will be gone for good?
Are guns-as-threat going the way of the dodo?
Or will the future be a rerun of tragedies we have known?
This blog takes a serious look at murder in the U.S.A. It sets out three perspectives we’ve never heard in our lifetime. Not from the NRA. Not from Congress.
How well do you know the world? Your years of experience build into insight. You devoted hours beyond count to studying it in school: you can recite highlights of its history, outline its geography from polar ice to tropical forest, appreciate its cultures. You can explain how it depends on photosynthesis. You know about climate change. Maybe you can quote reliable stats on the world’s refugees.
But – surprise! -- there are ways to see the world you’ve never dreamt of.
Ready for your survey question of the day? Thinking about your conversations with friends, how often did the term sin come up?
O Never/ almost never
O Occasionally
O Regularly, often
If you answered Never you’re part of a large mass — uncountable, really — of people in the Western world. We don’t talk much about sin.
It wasn’t always that way.
