Writings

We must always look for ways to stand with the poor because it is easy to overlook them. Our society, which is so caught up in materialism, puts the poor out of the way. They can be invisible.

We can’t simply rely on our backgrounds, on the faith of our fathers and mothers, on the tradition of our families. We, too, are called to a transformation of our lives because the new order, as Clarence Jordan says, is impinging upon our lives.

These are difficult words from Jesus—a hard prophecy about family relationships. But to follow Jesus is often difficult.

Greed is more than building up and hoarding material possessions or storing up goods in barns. We can be greedy with our time, with our words of support, with our willingness to open our heart to others.

But there were also people who were neighbors and Good Samaritans to Koinonia, and their stories are not to be forgotten.