Given the events of this week, Charlottesville, Trump\u2019s response, Bannon\u2019s departure, one might see it as a moral event, one that mirrors in some fashion the upcoming eclipse.\u00a0 There were signs within the moral universe of some sort of tremor or rumbling\u2014some sort of sign in the heavens.\u00a0 It seemed to portend something, a reckoning perhaps.<\/p>\n
The dictionary gives some interesting definitions and meanings for the word \u201creckoning.\u201d\u00a0 We are told it is has to do with accounting, a bill due, or a computation.\u00a0 Is it possible the bill, the account, for the history of discrimination and racism, slavery, is still not paid?\u00a0 Could it be that while we thought the Civil War, in blood, had exacted a price that surely was high enough to pay that bill, we were wrong?\u00a0 Is it possible that rather than pay the bill, too many accounts were left open and charges were still being made, even up to the present day?<\/p>\n
There is also the idea of a \u201csettling of accounts\u201d a \u201csumming up\u201d\u2014a day of<\/em> reckoning.\u00a0 The bill can only remain unpaid for so long.\u00a0 There comes a day when the account must be settled.\u00a0 Will that day ever come?\u00a0 When we see the KKK, neo-Nazi\u2019s, and the alt-right marching in 2017, one has to wonder. \u00a0When we hear the egregiously horrible response of this President to that marching, one has to wonder. \u00a0If the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, then it also bends toward a reckoning.\u00a0 I pray that day is played out in reconciliation and not violence.<\/p>\n For me, the most interesting aspect of a \u201creckoning\u201d is the idea of calculating a ship\u2019s position.\u00a0 The events of last week tell us something about the position of this ship called America.\u00a0 In the arc of that bending toward justice, we were \u201clocated\u201d this past week.\u00a0 Clearly, we have far to go and much to do.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Given the events of this week, Charlottesville, Trump\u2019s response, Bannon\u2019s departure, one might see it as a moral event, one that mirrors in some fashion the upcoming eclipse.\u00a0 There were signs within the moral universe of some sort of tremor or rumbling\u2014some sort of sign in the heavens.\u00a0 It seemed to portend something, a reckoning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,47,65,365,419,485],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bannon-alt-right","tag-charlottesville","tag-civil-war","tag-racism","tag-slavery","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n