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Categories: Letters 2023

February 2, 2023

Dear Saints in Santa Fe and other far-off places: Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ, who continually calls us to love one another. “We have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.” Remember this part of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech spoken sixty years ago this August, and 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Categories: Letters 2023

January 17, 2023

Dear Saints in Santa Fe and other far-off places: Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ, who taught “blessed are the peacemakers.” I want you to join me in the work of peacemaking in 2023.  Get together, talk it over, form a group, be part of movement, do something small, consider something big, make a difference, if not for the world, then for you.  And me.  And our community.  Will you? Now if you haven’t yet scrolled to something else then allow me to make your deliberation a bit easier.  I have already listed your objections (but you can still come up with your own!).

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