How will we rise up to be the midwives of our time?
In Exodus , we witness how a shifting political landscape leads to the oppression of the Israelites. As we listen to the story: We often empathize with the Israelites’ suffering. We are inspired by the courage of the reluctant prophet God calls to lead them. We are filled with hope by the liberating acts of our God, as the Israelites escape Pharaoh's wrath to become refugees wandering in the wilderness. As we take in every moment of this story, we can easily imagine ourselves as the Israelites and root for these underdogs, joining in the cry to “Let my people go.” Yet I can’t help but wonder whether we are wrong to self-identify with the Israelites. What if our forebears have mistakenly woven this biblical narrative into our own American history? You know the stories as well as I do. Many of the settlers that first reached these shores did so as they fled religious or ethnic persecution. Things began to go awry when white settlers started to harvest the bounty of this