Colleagues

I had the pleasure of having a rich conversation with two of my longtime colleagues in gorgeous weather. We have been working together in biblical studies, supporting one another throughout our journey for more than 20 years. We are more than colleagues; we are brothers. The elder (Dr. Boykin Sanders) is from South Carolina, with deep roots in the African American struggle for justice passed down from his grandparents; the other (Dr. Robert Wafawanaka) is from Zimbabwe, and I am from Korea. We started off talking about weather and community, and ended up sharing a common interest in collaborative publication. We are all serious about scholarship; we are more interested in real people and community. It is a blessing that we have been sharing so many things together. We share a common culture, rooted in the people we come from. We care about what we do because of the people we come from. We share a spirit of union and solidarity, rather than a unity-driven ideology or the practices of empire.