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The Brown Prophets 2019
Vol. 12, No. 01

About the cover

The cover page for this year’s issue, inspired by the theme: Breaking Barriers through Kindness, portrays an old wall with cracks on it and through one of its cracks a ray of light has penetrated. This imagery symbolizes how the light of Christ emanating from our simple acts of kindness breaks through our walls of prejudices, discrimination, arrogance, indifference, and self-righteousness.

Our human tendencies to discriminate because of our exclusivity in our beliefs, traditions, and practices, our tendencies to judge others because of our presumptions and self-righteousness, our tendencies to oppress others because of our hard-heartedness and failure to listen to other perspectives create walls that divide people from one culture, religion, race, or tradition from another. Those walls are built overtime and people seem to be comfortable with them. However, these walls are not built to last forever. They can be broken by even simple gestures of kindness. In fact, genuine positive transformation, may it be social, political, religious, or ecological, begins with a simple act of goodness.

Kindness supersedes race, class, religion, culture, and beliefs. It is a very human act that expresses the human longing for peace, unity, and harmony. No matter how thick the walls are, kindness, which is a Godly act, can break through them. For us Christians, kindness shows the love of God who is in Jesus Christ and who is present in and among us through the Holy Spirit. By showing kindness even to those who seem for us are underserving of kindness, is doing his or her role in the building of God’s Kingdom on earth to fulfillment.