Peacework, February 1st, 2008
Yesterday was Epiphany. Epiphany means appearance or manifestation; in the Christian church, the appearance of Jesus, his manifestation as Messiah, and the revealing that he is not for Israel only, but for all nations. These last weeks in Kenya seem to demonstrate the reverse, the appearance of killing and burning and chaos, the manifestation of evil. It's been bad.
I think there has been an epiphany here, but of a different son. The question near the surface of so many commentators is, "We expect this sort of thing in Somalia or Liberia or Congo-but how could this happen in Kenya, a country ...
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