Hopewit

Butter Beans, by Frank Stanley Herring Jean Vanier is known to most of us for his work in establishing L’Arche, a world wide community of support institutions for the developmentally challenged. Some of us know people who worked or are working in one of these charitable endeavours and the news of L’Arche’s good work has become legendary in our time. If you click HERE , you’ll see Wikipedia’s story of the man and his work  . . . including a Globe and Mail headline that says he may soon be posthumously charged with the abuse of at least six women.      Among the comments appended to a fb post on this development is only one male voice alongside numerous female voices, and one comment declares that the lack of men’s responses is meaningful. That may be true, possibly because women far outnumber male users of fb, and/or plus a possibility that men are ashamed to be of the same gender as the perpetrator, or that they just don’t really care that women are being abused sexually.  

A good place to meditate, or just walk the hills. “ When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, ‘My spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.’ The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.” (Genesis 6:1-4, NIV) Type the word nephilim into Google search and watch as preachers and theologians turn themselves inside-out in attempts to exegete Genesis 6:1-4. Nephilim are either the product of the coupling of the “sons of God” with human women, or they’re not. The “sons of God” are either angels who abandoned their place in heaven and are copulating with women, or they were the heroes of