Traveling upstream: A call to Wyoming’s faith leaders to pursue justice

Traveling upstream: A call to Wyoming’s faith leaders to pursue justice

Ronald Rolheiser tells the story in his 1999 book, “The Holy Longing,” of the residents of a town by a river who were consistently pulling drowning people out of the water. They did not know where the drowning people came from, but always cared for them, until one day it dawned on them to go upriver and see why they were drowning. Opinion Faith communities are often like this. We are very good with charity but fail to go upstream and confront w…