Dorothy Day, 19th
century Catholic social activist, is quoted as saying, “I only love God as much
as I love the person I love the least.” Dr. King said, “Hate cannot drive out
hate, only love can do that.” Vincent
Harding, friend and occasional speechwriter to Dr. King, said to a colleague on
a panel of speakers in one of my seminary courses, “I am going to disagree with
you in love,” and then proceeded to do just that. In Christian scripture, Jesus commands love
of God, self, neighbor, and enemy.
I’m personally challenged
by these stalwart leaders in my faith tradition and the moment of leadership we
faith leaders across traditions find ourselves in. Mockery is the name of the game today.
Critique over connection is often the first move. I’m just as guilty as the
next person indulging in laughter over and against another person’s humanity
just to blow off some steam. But I keep
asking myself, how are we going to lead through this moment in time if all the
sides are indulging similarly? Will there come a time when higher ideals
prevail to ground our connection and critique? Is there a critical mass of people needed to risk leading in love for
the planet and its people to make it through this time? There is no crystal ball. There is only the
next right step.
For me, the next right
step is continuing to risk connection across differences of race, faith, and politics. Robert Frost, in his poem “Servant to
the Servants (1915),” writes, “I can see no way out but through.” Maya Angelou made a similar observation. For me, the way through this time means
risking love as the highest ideal. Loving the earth, loving vulnerable neighbors and obnoxious ones, loving
colleagues, and loving national and world leaders that I’m least inclined to
love. Love is neither capitulation nor
sentiment. Love connects over and
against withdrawal. Love is powerful. Love is risk. Love is the way
through.
[Written to multi-race, multi-faith leaders for Together Colorado Faith Voices, June 13, 2017]
Fallout 76’s long-awaited, return-of-the-NPCs Wastelanders update arrives on April 14. Bethesda https://www.lolga.com/fallout-76-items Game Studios tossed up a trailer hinting at the narrative supporting such a huge change in the game, with scenes of some of the new activities players will find this coming Tuesday. Developers followed that up with more detail in a blog post on Friday.
ReplyDeleteFor one thing, Wastelanders will add another currency, gold bullion; it’s legal tender with NPC vendors who sell plans that craft new weapons and armor. Those will come in handy, as there’s a new monster out in Appalachia: the Wendigo Colossus. As if a vanilla Wendigo wasn’t tough enough, this one features three heads and can summon its more regular colleagues and ramp up your fight’s difficulty https://www.lolga.com commensurately. Here’s a brief look at such a throwdown.
We’ve already seen snippets of how dialogue and interactions with NPCs will work (your player character is mute again, no surprise there). But this walkthrough of a daily quest, to earn some rep with the Raiders, gives a more detailed look at the return of classic Fallout mission-giving.
BGS developers advise that, with the changes coming in Wastelanders, some areas will be off limits to CAMP sites. They marked these locales on a map in Friday’s blog post; players in those areas might want to move their joint before the update launches on Tuesday. If they don’t, the game will pick it up for them, and give them a free Fallout 76 Items move to put it down somewhere else.