Thank you Cheri for sharing your thoughts that Jesus was WOKE and also for sharing that DEI is a positive thing. You are correct, too many people use the word WOKE and accronym DEI, not knowing what these terms mean. I can definitely identify with you and also label myself as a liberal Christian.
Thanks, Sue. I decided that it was a matter of following my conscience. I write Christian fiction. I have many Christian friends; however, I also have friends who are Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu. I have gay friends. I have friends who are veterans, friends who are disabled or have children who are disabled or have chronic health conditions. If I don't step up, speak out, and defend their rights, I'm not living my faith very well. I fear many of our friends and neighbors will be targeted by the new administration based on what we've seen so far. Every person is of worth in God's eyes regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, or any other label.
You may ask, how did we get here? I heard someone say that President Trump wants to take an isolationist view towards the world. How is that possible given modern technology that connects us all? International business, international trade, international health organizations. We wouldn't have come out of COVID without the scientific cooperation of many countries. And with the real danger of further pandemics, we need to stay connected to the WHO and what is happening around the world with research. And when did we ever see a time we would treat scientists and dedicated civil servants across the government so poorly? If we think the solution is mass firing, watch out. We will deal with chaos for four years and it will impact our children and grandchildren if we don't speak out.
Have we learned nothing from history? I'm not a historian: I'm a novelist who writes historical fiction. I've done a lot of research about the Great War for book three, The Promise, and WWII for the first book, The Gift. My mother was a writer and wrote extensively about her experiences as a young country schoolteacher who went to California and helped build bombers for the war. Her little sister was also a riveter and her brother-in-law a mechanic. I've just completed book four, The Recollection, about the Great Depression.
Look at what happened during the 1930s, when my parents were growing up--we were struggling with the Great Depression, people had lost their farms or homes to foreclosure, soup kitchens were trying to feed them, and many were packing up their possessions and moving west. Europe was experiencing tremendous unrest that would lead to war, and we tried to stay out of it until we couldn't ignore it any longer. The Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor and we went to war. Germany made the Jews their target, put them in camps, tortured and killed them. It starts with labeling people and making them the scapegoat for all our problems.
Withdrawing from the World Health Organization is a huge mistake, and makes me fear for the future of NATO, which has grown to 32 countries and has kept us all safer since 1949.
What has kept us safe for the past 76 years? The strength of numbers. Communication, coordination, and mutual respect. Stability. Predictability. Cooperating with our allies, not threatening them with tariffs or worse, invasion. Greenland is a territory belong to Denmark, a sovereign nation. And Canada is a sovereign country. It's insulting to suggest either country could be absorbed into our nation. And the use of military action would bring our very friends in NATO against us.
As citizens, we need to wake up, resist the lies about the value of DEI (and so many other lies), and urge our elected officials to not isolate America from the rest of the world and not demonize people with labels.
Thank you Cheri for sharing your thoughts that Jesus was WOKE and also for sharing that DEI is a positive thing. You are correct, too many people use the word WOKE and accronym DEI, not knowing what these terms mean. I can definitely identify with you and also label myself as a liberal Christian.
Thanks, Sue. I decided that it was a matter of following my conscience. I write Christian fiction. I have many Christian friends; however, I also have friends who are Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu. I have gay friends. I have friends who are veterans, friends who are disabled or have children who are disabled or have chronic health conditions. If I don't step up, speak out, and defend their rights, I'm not living my faith very well. I fear many of our friends and neighbors will be targeted by the new administration based on what we've seen so far. Every person is of worth in God's eyes regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, or any other label.
You may ask, how did we get here? I heard someone say that President Trump wants to take an isolationist view towards the world. How is that possible given modern technology that connects us all? International business, international trade, international health organizations. We wouldn't have come out of COVID without the scientific cooperation of many countries. And with the real danger of further pandemics, we need to stay connected to the WHO and what is happening around the world with research. And when did we ever see a time we would treat scientists and dedicated civil servants across the government so poorly? If we think the solution is mass firing, watch out. We will deal with chaos for four years and it will impact our children and grandchildren if we don't speak out.
Have we learned nothing from history? I'm not a historian: I'm a novelist who writes historical fiction. I've done a lot of research about the Great War for book three, The Promise, and WWII for the first book, The Gift. My mother was a writer and wrote extensively about her experiences as a young country schoolteacher who went to California and helped build bombers for the war. Her little sister was also a riveter and her brother-in-law a mechanic. I've just completed book four, The Recollection, about the Great Depression.
Look at what happened during the 1930s, when my parents were growing up--we were struggling with the Great Depression, people had lost their farms or homes to foreclosure, soup kitchens were trying to feed them, and many were packing up their possessions and moving west. Europe was experiencing tremendous unrest that would lead to war, and we tried to stay out of it until we couldn't ignore it any longer. The Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor and we went to war. Germany made the Jews their target, put them in camps, tortured and killed them. It starts with labeling people and making them the scapegoat for all our problems.
Withdrawing from the World Health Organization is a huge mistake, and makes me fear for the future of NATO, which has grown to 32 countries and has kept us all safer since 1949.
What has kept us safe for the past 76 years? The strength of numbers. Communication, coordination, and mutual respect. Stability. Predictability. Cooperating with our allies, not threatening them with tariffs or worse, invasion. Greenland is a territory belong to Denmark, a sovereign nation. And Canada is a sovereign country. It's insulting to suggest either country could be absorbed into our nation. And the use of military action would bring our very friends in NATO against us.
As citizens, we need to wake up, resist the lies about the value of DEI (and so many other lies), and urge our elected officials to not isolate America from the rest of the world and not demonize people with labels.