“And he confessed, and denied not; but
confessed, I am not the Christ…He said, I am the voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord.”
St. John 1:20,23
We are living in an age of powerful words. Over the last few months, women from every
corner of public life have found the courage to come forward to say: “I was
violated, demeaned, treated with cruelty.
Sexual abuse affected me too, and I will be silent no longer.” And it seems that every morning there is
another apology, another resignation of some powerful man.
In the last few years, people all across the
nation have spoken out about racial discrimination and brutal treatment of
African Americans. There have been bestselling
books, protests and counter protests, verdicts rendered. Old statues have fallen, flags have been
hauled down, and a few football players sit on the sidelines.
Words are, of course, the oxygen of
politics.
