If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict.
Mitali PerkinsI hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.
Mitali PerkinsI learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
Mitali PerkinsItโs a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowryโs vision and authorityโฆthe filmโฆilluminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.
Mitali PerkinsAmerica inevitably "brings the distant near" because apart from members of the Native Nations, all of us originated in faraway places. Sadly, proximity within the United States doesn't automatically generate friendship. But if we choose to cross borders that may at first bring discomfort and open our hearts to those who seem like strangers, I believe that we can be transformed and united as individuals, families, communities, and even as a country.
Mitali Perkins