ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS
November 11, 2026
Our own Ron Mundy often posts humorous things on social media, though occasionally the humor is a doorway into some truth-telling. Recently, he posted a picture of two groups of zebras looking at each other. The caption said, “The world’s problems began when the zebras with white stripes started disliking the zebras with black stripes.” Now I never want to dismiss the unique beauty of every single person (or zebra), yet at the same time, some of the so-called differences that drive us apart are social constructs or simply human insecurity looking for something else to devalue. We don’t want to ignore the hurt that has been done. This is never helpful or healing. However, we can make space for people’s hurt to be named, while also celebrating the amazing and beautiful diversity found in the one human family. This isn’t lip service to some notion of equality. This is following Jesus who healed the brokenness and pain in people’s lives, and at the same time found ways of celebrating all people, especially those who had been made to feel as if there was something that made them unworthy of celebration.
We pray often about your will, Amazing God, being reflected from heaven to earth. This doesn’t just happen by chance, for even Jesus got up each day to model what a little bit of Kin(g)dom living might look like in daily life. May this be part of our daily living as well. Amen.
