(August 2026) “I am because you are: We need one another.”
Our individual identities are always bound up in community. Jesus describes this vision using a vine and branches. Paul talks about a body with many parts. The prophets describe communities of liberative interdependence.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu describes this way of mutual interconnectedness as “Ubuntu,” where “my humanity is caught up and bound up inextricably with yours. I can only be fully me if you are fully you.”
In delving into Scripture, we learn how no one can flourish unless everyone does, and how our lives are bound up with one another and the planet.
