Over the past few days I’ve had conversations with friends and colleagues living in four separate countries. One thing that comes with having regular contact with people in different parts of the world is that I always get some sense of their sociopolitical perspective on what is happening where they are, wherever I happen to be. And despite all the expected variation from one country to the next, what seems clear is that people everywhere are harbouring feelings of uncertainty and concern about our collective future.
I’ve found myself thinking about where it is many of us look to place our faith. Not necessarily the idea of faith in a traditional religious sense, though it may be that, but in the broader sense of where or in what or whom we put our belief and confidence for experiencing the life for which we hope, peaceful and free.