Anne Jackson on the finite reality of human ability in the face of infinite human need.
The sun did not sympathize with the winter season. What should have been alive was dead, and the only green we saw was sewn into the fabric wraps women wore around their midsections as they carried their babies along the dirt road. Three of us walked in a dusty heat from the footbridge across a dry riverbed to Lindiwe’s homestead at the edge of the village. Read More
Our columnist Anne Jackson looks into the bleak reality of loneliness, hiddenness, God's seeming absence and pain and asks, "Will those things that are said to not ever leave ever return?" Read More