2020, Year of the Rat
From the Corona Files I should have had a premonition about 2020. Not everything can be blamed on the virus—2020 by all accounts was already shaping up to be a stinker. So many foundational, rock-solid, salt-of-the-earth type stuff was liquefying, falling away, proving to be dust in the wind. Here is a small list: Boy Scouts Jean Vanier the Methodist Church for that matter all churches add to that the people in them The disappointment has certainly been building through the years. And, it’s nothing new: I recognized hypocrisy in the church when I was in my 20s. But, there had been a LOT of good also. I’d met caring concerned people as well as the jerks that have always been there. The genuine and authentic always seemed to outnumber the people who ruin it for everyone. Then there came a tipping point. At least I could trust Jean Vanier, winner of the Templeton Award for Humanitarian service, someone who had devoted his life to the “least of these.” The...