This morning in communion at #wdt18 we ran out of communion corn tortilla and then we invited folks to share theirs and ended up with leftovers and it was a real life feeding the 5000 and I believe in something divine that happens in community.
i often forget that mennonites are not all complacent, stick in the mud, passive aggressive white people. because....that may or may not be the majority of mennonites i live around.
so this conference is good for me ๐๐ค #wdt18
Older voters tend to vote more, and be more Conservative.
Question is, do people become more right-wing as they get older because they are better off financially, or is there another factor?
if you need to put your hope in something - go meet your neighbor. read the gospels of jesus in their true cultural context. hangout with someone who society has strategically placed walls up against. do some community organizing. read. educate.
Our county, under President Trump, is definitely headed in the wrong direction. But if you think a change in the balance of power at the mid-term electrons is going to solve things, you obviously don't understand our problems.