We spent a lot of time at the “Making Friends with Death” weekend thinking about compassion and trying to articulate what it is. Is it something we feel — a sort of kinship? a co-wounding? a motivating anger? Is it something we do — listening deeply? giving money to improve an unjust situation? offering our presence and accompaniment? speaking difficult words when they are needed? bringing optimism or hope to a situation? This quote from Walter Brueggemann‘s The Prophetic Imagination (via Waving or Drowning?) is more food for thought: “Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that … Continue reading Compassion