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Individuals must take responsibility to rebuild broken communities

Ronnie McBrayer Jacques Ellul once said, “In a society like ours, it is almost impossible for a person to be held responsible for anything. For each person carries out an individual task disconnected from the whole.” He then illustrated his point by example of a bursting dam.  The dam breaks. A village is washed away. There is incalculable human loss. Who is responsible? No, not “who should be scapegoated?” Just simple responsibility: Whose action or inaction, neglect or incompetence, led to this disaster? In most cases, per Ellul, there is no easy answer to the question. The engineer for the project says, “I only made calculations based on geology.” The contractor says, “I just followed the blueprints.” The workers say, “We simply poured the concrete.” The mayor of the village says, “I trusted the hundred-year flood plan.” On and on it goes, and the truth is, it’s likely that no single individual is responsible. Everyone involved is: Because that’s ho

KEEPING THE FAITH: Leave a place better than you found it

KEEPING THE FAITH: Leave a place better than you found it Ronnie McBrayer On screen Espera Oscar de Corti paddles down a remote river. Rhythmic drums play in the background. The river leads Espera into an unknown city, a city choking from pollution. Trash clogs the waterway. Smog hangs heavy in the air. Just as Espera drags his canoe ashore, the passenger of a belching car casts a bag of trash at Espera’s feet and the rubbish spills everywhere. An offscreen voice says, “Some people have a deep, abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. And some people don’t. People start pollution. People can stop it.” And as Espera Oscar de Corti makes a dramatic turn toward the camera, a single giant tear runs down his wrinkled face.

Visionary saw a trouble-free place somewhere over the rainbow

Visionary saw a trouble-free place somewhere over the rainbow Ronnie McBrayer Isidore Hochberg was born in New York City’s Lower East Side, 125 years ago this week. His parents, Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants, had risked everything to escape the anti-Semitic persecution of Russia, and while the Lower East Side was far safer than the Czars, it was a hardscrabble place to grow up. Little Isidore, the last of 10 children, would be one of only four in his family to survive the next decade. He went on to complete high school, serve during the first World War, and graduate from college. Isidore promptly opened his own business, only to be met by the Wall Street crash of 1929.

KEEPING THE FAITH: The resurrection is more than a hope for heaven

KEEPING THE FAITH: The resurrection is more than a hope for heaven
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