I Am Not Your Enemy by Michael T. McRay

Author:Michael T. McRay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MennoMedia
Published: 2019-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

1. To read more about this story, see Michael T. McRay, “The Powers of Destruction,” in Letters from “Apartheid Street”: A Christian Peacemaker in Occupied Palestine (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2013), 34–36.

2. Today, the center also grows parsley and other vegetables in aquaponics gardens to sell to local markets. They heat the building with solar panels.

3. A version of this story first appeared on the former website OnFaith on April 3, 2017.

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PLACE OF LUMPY CROSSINGS

I once asked a woman here in Belfast to help me understand what it was like growing up here during the Troubles. The Troubles were a multidecade violent conflict that killed more than thirty-five hundred people, mostly where I am now in the northern part of the island of Ireland. The woman I spoke with remembered when she was a child and a loud noise boomed in the distance one night. It scared her, and so she cried for her mother. “My mum walks in to assure me everything’s all right,” she told me. “And Mum says, ‘Don’t fret, dear. It wasn’t thunder. It was just a bomb.’”

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