Discipleship

Today’s news involving strikes on Iran and immediate military responses leaves me with the familiar heaviness of escalation: the sense that suffering is being accelerated, and that ordinary people will again absorb the consequences of decisions made far above them. In moments like this, I return to Vietnamese war-era songs that still dare to cry, hòa bình ơi—peace, come.

Christian service is not done for something, but for Somebody; and that difference changes everything.