Calamitous news comes at varying speeds. For some, as in the story of the patriarch Job, it strikes like a storm. Four harbingers of grief successively arrive and inform Job his livestock has been stolen or killed, his servants slain, his children flattened in a falling building. While one messenger still talks, the next arrives, until their staccato de…
Undoing the Damage We Do Each Other
Persistent Love, Determined Hope: Reviewing ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’ by Alan Paton
