Bread from Heaven
Despite our human tendencies toward selfishness and the hoarding of grace, God’s outpouring remains vast, and thus, with it comes a call to both rejoice and participate—to make possible the breaking of heavenly bread, together.
Julie Schumacher Cohen is assistant vice president for community engagement and government affairs at the University of Scranton, where she focuses on community-based learning, political dialogue, refugee solidarity, and other civic engagement initiatives. Prior to Scranton, she worked for NGOs to advance peace and justice for Israelis and Palestinians. Cohen is a doctoral student in political science at Temple University and an alumna of the Ignatian Colleagues Program.
Despite our human tendencies toward selfishness and the hoarding of grace, God’s outpouring remains vast, and thus, with it comes a call to both rejoice and participate—to make possible the breaking of heavenly bread, together.
Deliverance is bound up with coming face to face with that which is afflicted in this world, and to see this pain and brokenness not as someone else’s problem or responsibility, but as very much our own.
The often idealized American immigrant story that involves invoking the elusive “American dream” omits the experience Black and Indigenous people in the U.S.
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