Author Anna Clark asks that question in her review of Catherine Coleman Flowers’s book, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret (The NY Times Book Review, 12/27/20, p. 18). The book itself is about the largely unacknowledged problem of inadequate waste water disposal in many parts of America, particularly in rural areas.
How does that question sit with you?
I started writing some of my thoughts and questions about it, but soon decided I ought to allow it just to roll around in my consciousness for a while.
It is too easy to talk myself out of even considering it at all.
Then came yesterday’s gospel reading for New Year’s Day. It was Matthew 25:31-46…Jesus's Vision of the Last Judgment. It is his oft-citied vision of divine judgment upon “the nations”—not primarily upon individuals or even the church. I read it for the thousandth time with Anna Clark’s question in mind: What potential might be unleashed in a world where people have their needs met?
How would Jesus answer her? How will I?
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