by corneliuscorps | Oct 17, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was recently awarded to a Japanese organization called Nihon Hidankyo. This is a group of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Known by the term Hibakusha, these surviors have witnessed to the world...
by corneliuscorps | Oct 10, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Earlier this week marked the one year anniversary of the horrendous October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. The suffering, pain, and death on that day and in the year since are unimaginable for any of us who were not directly impacted. We hear the numbers – over...
by corneliuscorps | Oct 3, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Earlier this week, my wife and I voted in this year’s national election. The process of early voting at our polling place in Virginia was quick and easy. The whole process took less than 10 minutes. Yet 61 years ago during the first week of October, it was a...
by corneliuscorps | Sep 25, 2024 | Weekly Reflection
The title of this post comes from Shane Claiborne in a YouTube video about the death penalty posted seven years ago. I refer to it today, because of an execution in Missouri on Tuesday evening. Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection after spending 24 years on...
by corneliuscorps | Sep 19, 2024 | Weekly Reflection
This week there have been numerous reports about the fallout from the baseless lies directed at Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH. Additional law enforcement was called in to address over 30 bomb threats that closed government buildings, public schools, and local...
